Dreams of India's Vast Wealth Made Everyone From Ancient Greeks to Renaissance Portuguese Risk Death To Reach It

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History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Claims of India's fantastic wealth lead Europeans through the centuries to seek to trade with this fabled land, which existed on the far eastern reaches of known civilization. As far back as the 500s BC, Scylax of Caryanda, a Greek explorer sailed...

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0:00.0	The History
0:10.0	History is in just a bunch of mains, dates, and fabrics.
0:13.0	It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and
0:16.9	why we got here.
0:18.7	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange,
0:23.7	and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.
0:27.6	I'm your host, Scott Brank.
0:31.0	Everyone, Scott here.
0:32.4	Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast.
0:34.7	This is a special episode if you happen to be watching.
0:38.6	If you're just listening on a normal audio podcast, on Apple Podcasts or Citroër, whatever,
0:43.6	this is normal.
0:44.6	But this is the first episode where I'm doing video along with audio.
0:48.7	Some people like to watch on YouTube or other video platforms.
0:51.5	So, I'm making that option available now.
0:54.2	And if you go to YouTube and look for History Unplugged Podcast, that's where you'll find
0:57.8	it.
0:58.7	This episode is about India.
1:01.4	It's not just India, but the enormous influence that India had on the West, how it created
1:08.2	in the Western imagination, this land of exotic wealth, how India inspired the age of discovery
1:13.8	because people were seeking out this wealth, but also how there is a long history of contact
1:19.1	between India and ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and the contact between these different
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