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The Ancient World

Episode 32 – Things Fixed, Things Moving

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2013

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

“Black is your path, Agni, changeless, with glittering waves!  When like a bull you rush eager to the trees. With teeth of flame, wind-driven, through the wood he speeds, triumphant like a bull among the herd of cows, With bright strength roaming to the everlasting air: things fixed, things moving quake before him as he flies.”-  Rigvedas, Book 1, Hymn LVIII Darius retraced Cyrus’s footsteps to expand Persian control of Vedic India.  Hipparchus met a bloody end at the hands of a jealous rival.  Tarquin kept Rome’s military and infrastructure sound while alienating both rich and poor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.0

Hi, I'm Scott Chesworth and welcome to the ancient world.

1:07.4

Episode 32, things fixed, things moving.

1:18.0

Around 530 BC, when Cyrus the Great first led Persian armies over the imposing Hindu Kush, he'd found the lands beyond to be lush, populous, and wealthy.

1:23.1

The tribes he encountered lived along the upper reaches of a river known locally as the

1:27.9

Sindhi, later called the Indus, and belonged to two main groups, the Gandharans and the Cambodia.

1:35.0

Each grouping was known as a Mahajana-Pada, roughly great foothold of a tribe,

1:41.0

with its own capital and basic administrative system.

1:45.8

Cyrus learned that at the time, 16 Mahajana Potas dominated a broad crescent extending

1:52.2

from the upper Indus to the lower ganji. a The Great King filed the information away for future reference, subjected the Gandharans and Cambodia to Persian tribute, and returned across the mountains, to his fateful appointment with the Masagatai Queen. the may have learned several interesting things.

2:22.6

Among them, the fact that the people he just met, seemingly so different from the Persians,

2:28.6

were in truth their distant cousins.

2:31.6

From a common Central Asian homeland, warlike chariot-writing bronze-age

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