When was the first Greeks Travels to South India?

Answer 1

Nonnos is an historian not very well known. He wrote that three Cretan leaders (Dias, Dionyssos and Hercules) organized three expeditions to the East, centuries apart from each another. They, were followed by Greeks from all over Greece. They even arrived to South India; The river Gang is named after a young Cretan prince.
When Alexandre and his troops were approaching mighty cities, they were talking in Greek, since they were founded by Greeks who were there some/ many centuries before Alexandre!

Also, the Vedas are mentioning some issues about those ancient expeditions!

Answer 2

Alexander the Great took his army of ten thousand into what was then called Asia Minor: Persia, Irac, Babylonia, Parthia, the Hindu Kush and into India beginning in 334 B.C. He began his retreat from India in 326 B.C. and died three years later at the age of 29. His conquests spread from the Mediterranean to India, to what is now Russia and Egypt and made Greek a universal language throughout that known area. Upon this Greek civilisation the Romans built the Roman Empire expanding west and North but never into India as the Greeks had done.

Answer 3

The main Europeans to arrive in ancient India were Greeks. The Greeks are referred to in ancient Indian history as Yavanas. Even the most famous ancient Greek conqueror, Alexander the Great, arrived in India. But actually he arrived up to the present India-Pakistan border. But there were other Greeks who arrived in India and established kingdoms. Many of these Greek communities later on adopted Hinduism and integrated in the Indian caste system. Even today there are communities in Kashmir who claim to be of Greek origin. Not all Greeks arrived in India to conquer it. There were also Greek scientists who arrived in India for scientific research, especially in astronomy and mathematics.

Later on other Europeans arrived in India because of commercial reasons. The Indian sub-continent was then world famous for its spices. But when the Muslim Ottoman Empire of Turkey ruled the Middle East, they caused lots of problems to European Christian merchants who tried to pass through their land. Therefore the Europeans tried to find other routes to reach India. And so accidentally Christopher Columbus found the continent of America. Columbus tried to get to India while sailing westwards from Europe. Columbus presumed that because the earth is round he would eventually get to India while sailing westwards, instead he found the continent of America whose existence was not known then to the Europeans. Columbus thought that he had arrived in India and called the natives Indians.

From the 15th century the European representatives arrived in India, namely English, French, Dutch, Danish and Portuguese. Among these European powers the Portuguese arrived first in India in 1498 via sea after they had circled the whole of the African continent. There is a place in India named after Vasco-De-Gama on the west coast. These representatives arrived in India after they received from their country rulers charter to do business with India.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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