Why did it survive for so long while the seleucids or other greek kingdoms rapidly declined?

Why did it survive for so long while the seleucids or other greek kingdoms rapidly declined?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Luck

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >expands into india
    >fricking dies

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Selucids were pulled from all sides, stuck right in the middle, getting slowly pushed out of India by the Maryans, Central Asia by the Greco-Bactrians and later Parthians, out of Iran by the Parthians, Syria by the Ptolemies, and Anatolia by everyone.
    Greco-Bactria only ever really had cohesive threats to its southwest and southeast, until the arrival of the Yuezhi from the north. They didn't have the same problem of settled states marching on them from every direction. The Greco-Bactrians were eventually outlived by the Indo-Greeks anyway, which lasted til 10AD.
    The map is wrong btw, Greco-Bactria never expanded into Khwarazm south of the Aral Sea.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Also I believe there was already a significant Greekoid population in the area, descended from Ionians who had been deported there by the Achaemenid Empire over the years. Greco-Bactria might have had a larger Greek population than the Seleucid Empire, which would have strengthened Greek rule

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      agreed , the seleucids where overextended on multiple fronts , meanwhile the greco bactrians and later on indo greeks would have much more favorable geographic defenses , also wanted to add that bactria was heavily settled by greeks which probally extended it's lifespan

      It didnt. litterally died a century or so before the Seleucids. All they left were indo-greek rump states.

      50 year difference , but i'd like to add that indo-greeks were basically south greco bactria , the kingdoms included large parts of afghanistan and arachosia

      Greeks introduced arabs genes into the region and made them browner

      the greeks who settled in bactria didn't racemix with arabs in any way as far as i know

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Greco-Bactria never expanded into Khwarazm south of the Aral Sea.
      They did though annex lost territory.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It didnt. litterally died a century or so before the Seleucids. All they left were indo-greek rump states.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Greeks introduced arabs genes into the region and made them browner

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    VGH...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Yup, EB1 was good mod

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm still playing EB in 2022. Try the Rome Remastered version of it, absolutely fricking kino.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Damn, didn't know they had ported it already, nice

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It was unofficially ported about 6 months ago and they've even added a port of a new campaign map from what I assume is other mods, which is nice because full auto-resolve campaigns are now feasible in it and it's more accurate. Dunno if we will ever get an official port upgraded in certain ways.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what game

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's a modded version of Rome Total War called Europa Barbarorum

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Purest heirs of Iskhandar

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >"Land of thousand golden cities"
    >archeology only have a handful of cities to work with
    Damn. At least we have their kino coins.

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