How Roman trade with India made the Empire rich
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We are continuing our new animated historical documentary series on the Roman trade and economy with a video on the trade with India via the Red Sea. Our previous video showed that the conquest of Egypt became crucial for the Empire financially and part of it was the trade with the Indian states and the lucrative spice trade. So, what made the Roman empire trade with India so beneficial? Find out in this video!
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Adrian Goldsworthy - Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor
Raoul McLaughlin - The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: The Ancient World Economy and the Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia and India
Raoul McLaughlin - Rome and the Distant East: Trade Routes to the Ancient Lands of Arabia, India and China
Alan K. Bowman and Dominic Rathbone - Cities and Administration in Roman Egypt
Adrian Goldsworthy - Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World
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Please make videos on delhi sultanate of medieval india...
Hm. You state that Ptolemaic Egypt hunted for elephants in Ethiopia and Somalia. That claim sounds totally unrealistic to me. Elephants are divided into two very genetically distinct groups that are unable to procreate with each other. One is Indian elephant, and the other is African elephant. African elephants are recognizable by their big ears and flat forehead and are also larger and both females and males have tusks. Indian elephants have much smaller ears, dome shaped forehead, are smaller and females have no tusks. The other major difference is that Indian elephants are tamable, while African elephants are not. North African elephants were much smaller than the ones from India, but both belonged to the same species, so North African elephants were tamable and behaved the same way as Indian elephants. In Somalia and Ethiopia, Ptolemaic Egyptians could have only hunted for African elephants which could have been of no use to them since they were totally untamable.
It's great to watch your video and hopefully you will create a good video in this way too. Thank You Sir
2 not simple questions: what did the romans export to india and how much it contributed to the trade balance? what was the importance of socotra island, no mention at all?
PLEASE! MAKE NEW VIDEOS ABOUT ROMAN ECONOMY!🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Romans (trade with India)
Europe after 1000 years: "we need to find this place called India"
Awsm
Age of Discovery started from 1453.
Europeans knew where India was, the problem was, that the Muslim states were in between, most notably the Ottoman Empire, which heavily taxed any non-muslim trade going through their territory. That's why the Christian countries looked for a way around the Muslim held lands.
@@SinsGamingChannel Trade with Greece Rome was going on for many millennia.
@@joydeepghosh1781 sathavahana period 100bc to 3ce.
Trade with Roman Empire= Got Rich
Trade with Chinese Empire= Got Rich
Trade with British Empire= Got Rekt
In china case its got high.
yup British seriously lack how to trade.
@@lordpochinki2112 that's why we are happy there are out of the EU
@@lordpochinki2112 indeed you can just looke at whats happaning today.
@@lordpochinki2112 you are either joking or just dumb. The British empire's main income was from trade. They didn't go around the literal globe, and colonizing everything for nothing. It was for trade. And they were good at it, very good at it.
India was so wealthy that centuries later , even Europeans like Columbus were desperate to find India .
You are Right
@AARVYY Why?
40% of the global revenues from trade were made in India before English Colonizers arrived. When the Englishman left it was around 5%
@@mirzada24 shut up with the 40% shit, do you think really had fourty percent of the global revenue when most of world wasn't into count, for example only part of Africa was known and part of asia, and the number isn't even accurate, for example entire American contents wasn't into count or Australia which would be biggest in global share, and did you forget many country had huge development in agriculture and infrastructure, you are comparing to the time when entire world wasn't connected, and after agriculture revolution many countries produce large number of goods, for example usa which is global leader, and in the time you're comparing they didn't produce a single grain of rice, now look how many billion of metric tons they produce, it was india lacking to developed, why don't you introduced the quantity of goos india produce before British time to tge time after british rule, you will be surprised Infact india produce more goods during british raj than before, so british Infact increase the number of goods india produce, it just india catches up with the rest of the world which has zero count of goods produce in the time you compared,
Saying india was rich is just bullshit, yeah the kings were more rich before the british but the common peoples was poor through out the time, just india was known for spices doesn't mean every Indian was rich, Infact common people were very poor, Infact life of common peoples improve during british raj even if they slaughter million of Indian
Once gold enters India it never leaves India, it is not traded it just gets handed down to the next generation
During the 1CE and till the 12th and 13th century CE,the major part of India's precious metal,be it Gold,Silver or Diamond used to b kept in religious places like temples....But after many foreign invasions everything was looted...Then later Indians realised that it's better to keep the precious metal safe....In today's world Indian housewives hold 11percent of worlds gold,which is ritually passed down to families....
@@dkaswan and kerala based jewelleries know exactly the same.. Thats why most of indias money is going to 3,4 families in kerala, added to that the same kerala based finance companys give loans on gold as security... So again the gold goes back, to kerala...
we value gold..and it is considered sacred and as a security for many Indian woman..
@@feelingacoustic5143 And yet, I never thoroughly understood it's allure and thereby it's value. You can make pretty trinkets or adornments from it, but not tools or weapons as it is too soft.
@Go Fish CE for Common Era is a modern alternative for AD, meaning Anno Domini. Traditionally, the western calendar has divided dates into BC (Before Christ) and AD ("In the Year of Our Lord" in Latin).
It's amazing how connected the ancient world was. I think most people believe the ancient world was isolated to a few regions.
@большой половой член Thor Heiadall (written somewhat like that) did that. He was an absolute mad lad.
@большой половой член Dude how pissed can you be, the Mughal empire (Muslim rulers) kept India rich af for a long ass time
@большой половой член
How is the Abrahamic Faith made the world a shithole?
Quality of life is better now than what was it 200 years ago and the Christian Romans(later Byzantines) and Islamic Empire continued trade
@Somali Kid eehhhh, Christianity and especially Judaism is entirely built on the need of blood sacrifices to satiate God's wrath and anger. Jesus dying on the cross, Jepetha burning on the pyre, King Saul failing to slaughter the entire village, etc. Even muslims revere Abraham for being able to sacrifice his son to God. So I do think the whole sacrifice thing continues well into Abrahamic religions. I'm not even sure which Pagan religions you might be referring to in the Mediterranean? I know alot of South American and Eastern countries practices immolation and harvest rituals but I thought it was pretty rare? I agree it's pretty reductionist and naive to to view history that way, but you cant deny that during and after the crusades entire portions of Europe and middle east were cut off from another in large part due to religious conflict. Where other polytheistic religions might try and incorporate other neighboring Gods into their pantheon, monotheistic religions like the abrahamic Faith's by design can only acknowledge one God and one view of God. I think this makes them completely incompatible with other local religions and especially amongst each other.
Barely so, it was isolated. There was trade but the average Roman, even a learned one or an aristocrat probably knew absolutely nothing about anything east of Afghanistan, if he even heard of it
Pliny the elder in 77CE - India is the sink of all the world's gold.
It still is.
@большой половой член India's population is nearly 20% of the world's population so that makes sense
@@lewistaylor2858 No it doesn't. China's population is also roughly the same. So it to be normal Chinese too should have similar possession in gold. But they don't.
@@Andyxylius I honestly think China is currently the sink of the world's gold
@@jinjunliu2401 China isn't obsessed with gold.
Interesting to see this video. The richest temple in the world in Trivandrum, Kerala where Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple's recently discovered treasures show several boxes of roman coins amassed during such trade. Good to see this video and keep up the awesome work 👍🏼
@Pillars of Creation you can't open the vaults of the temple anyways so doesn't matter
we are all waiting for her to get killed of.
@Pillars of Creation brother, it doesn't matter. The treasures are not on display. They're locked up. But there's a lot still to see in India, especially Kerala. Do visit. Regards.
the grant idol in the temple itself is a site to watch. Muziris museum and heritage site have plenty of Roman ,Chinese gold coins and artifacts.
@Pillars of Creation Malayali ano? You can visit if you want. How are they gonna figure out if you're hindu or not?
As much as I love the military videos, this kind of videos delving into economy, trade routes and infrastructures is extremely insightful and fascinating and I am learning a lot more than I had expected.
I'd love to see more of this kind of video. They're absolutely phenomenal ^^
There will be more!
@@KingsandGenerals amazing dude. I'll tell ya something bout the ripples this trade had. I'm from India and grew up with a substandard life- intellectual and talent is subverted and treated like pet litter; most people half starved but, nearly all families have disproportionate amounts- and in some cases obscene amounts of gold. Fashioned into jewellery and passed around for pitiful purposes such as dowry, it's still incredible how ancient wealth, even after being plundered, exists here.
Quite some time ago I was roaming youtube frustratedly and leaving angry comments about how history is more than just bloody battles and calling all these "history interested people" hypocrites for being only on about war all the time.
There is no measure in which to express just how happy I am about the way your channel branched out.
you cant win war if your economy and infrastructures sucks
@@MrAizatazmi resources and economy building are the main factor in the strategy games I play. If you develop enough income, anything is possible.
So the luxury items were introduced in Europe from India.
By pride pandiyas of Tamil..
@@sabhrestman6644 some luxury items isn't everything
@@sabhrestman6644 stop this 😬
@@sabhrestman6644 No, at the time of Aurangzeb, india was richer than china
@@SamO-ik2cm eating hot food with hands activates your fluids in the body which is essential for digestion.
Roman coins were found in Vietnam...Titus don't surf.
@большой половой член Weren`t even some found in Japan?
It was also the route for Roman ambassadors to travel to China in the 160s. People in different regions around the world back then interacted more than we might know.
In what age? Because maybe at those time there were only Malay Champa civillization..
Proof of Rome's influence is the fact that there have been finds of late 6th and early 7th century Byzantine coins in Ireland.
This is crazy to believe because Ireland wasn't an important player in Europe at all yet they still traded with the Byzantines.
Ironically, that was how Vietnam considered an autonomous, wealthiest province in the last thousand years under China. Vietnamese locals control the lands and most of the trade, which the Chinese overlords only stationed in urban regions near the Red River Delta and few coastal cities. The lack of emphasis on trade from Han to Tang dynasty allows Vietnamese locals becoming wealthy to build an army of their own, and of course they later break off from China after thousands of years. Partially, Roman desire for trade funded the Vietnamese independence and ushered the restoration of Viet identity of sorts.
The good example is Shi Xie, a Han Chinese warlord who allowed Vietnamese locals doing whatever they wanted and promoted free trade unlike Confucius folks in the capital city. Shi Xie during Three Kingdoms basically chilled out in An Nam, smoke his rhino horn medicine and laugh at the fools in the Middle Kingdom. His policies ushered An Nam as the most prosperous region during one of the deadliest civil wars in Chinese history.
Roman coins is found in keeladi in Tamil Nadu (India) . which is 2500 old
ranjith a not only Romans and Keeladi, numerous coins is in every ancient port town of Tamil country
Tamils coin found in roman
There was Roman settlement in Tamil Nadu in ancient time near coimbatoor
Proud to be a Tamilian
Roman empire was not that old my friend.
Egypt is like the battery that powers the Roman spark plug. While Egypt is recharged by the Indian generator/alternator.
Best explanation
Exactly. And then people from egypt mock that indians were nothinf infront of them, stupid fellows
It's so rare to see westerners talking about India when they're talking about ancient history. It's always Rome, Egypt, Greece, and China.. India is never mentioned in anything no matter what the topic is as if we never existed even though we were one of the biggest empires in the world back then. Thank you for that!
exactly, they talk only Persian empire, Egypt Greek Roman
@काशी मथुरा हमारा है hey i'm not here for liberal conservative debate. I'm only looking to understand more about my country.
@@koteswar009 true! every time i watch a video saying 'history of something' I click on it hoping I'll find out how the thing developed in India along with other countries but India wouldn't be mentioned at all
umm the world is more connected than we thought. so talking about india, u have to talk about china,etc. but they didnt do it here which is dissapointing since thats what india also rich. 😳 its like the just focus on india and rome which is just the small piece of the puzzle.
its like saying silk road is just for china and rome, forget about all the countries in between or southeast asia 😭
@@angelabby2379 you're contradicting yourself
Things like this never cease to amaze me. To think that this happened 2000 years ago... Keep up the great work!
We will, thank you!
@odegaard This happens about 2000 years ago with a different population size and different technology. Did you watch the video at all?
@odegaard those 25 trucks were worth all the gold they could find though
india is 15000 yr old civilization is our belief(oral tradition)
Well not for us indians........its normal as
(our gods flew in their vimanas across the continents)😊
Why did India lost to foreign invaders in 1200's & 1800's ?
Ans: Athidi Devo Bhava 🤦♂️
India was political divided the Europeans exploited that give one prince military aid he destroys his rivals while also weakening himself and becomes dependent on europeans to maintain power in the end most of india ended up controlled by client principalities subservient to the british
India was Never United
@@HelloPenguinYT we never had a feeling of oneness or belonging to one common religion
plus europeans had more technologically advanced weapons at that time
@@marjanperveinis8355 do we lose to european??
I love historical interactions between Europe and Asia, they are so mystical
More on the way!
@@KingsandGenerals Thank you K&G for such a fun and informative time you provide the viewers!
We are in contact until jesus take over the europe. By burning pagon knowledge europe went to dark ages. Then again it came in contact with india and but this time by looting indian gold and knowledge they got rich.
@@MMaheshThakur well dark ages were actually not what you think it means it actually we don't have much knowledge about the period .
Ancient long distance trade talk gets me so hard. How about some Sino-Roman routes next
Spoken like q true history lover some silk road action would be welcome as well
@Aleksa Petrovic I remember that episode but it was Byzantine. Too modern for my tastes
Dennis Schohan yuuuuup
@@dennisaur66 Still Roman though. Don't believe the (late western) hype.
Dennis Schohan, How is that Too Modern? 530AD too Modern really, why not just say you prefer classical Antiquity to Late Antiquity
Throughout human history, anyone who traded with India became prosperous and powerful. True again in 21st century.
Anyone who Traded with India got Broke man, but who ever Rule India Economically , Politically , Military sense can get extremely Rich.
That's why the Brits learned from Roman mistakes for trading in large deficits,
The Brits bought resources from India just to manufacture and sell back to Indians on a higher price .
And to the chinese , they bought so much tea for Gold, that they decided to smuggle and sell Opuim to the chinese to balance the trade.
An expansion nation requires lots of resources, but if it does not attain favorable Trade, it is hard to maintain Power.
@@thewisemen8504 got good point .it looks china got on trembling feet after learning but india is ruined by politicians and idiotic copy of democracy. India should have made its constitution itself by looking at past and its own needs instead of copying others.
@@navneetparmar3084 Thats what the whole Middle east is doing man , own constitutions, own laws and conduct.
Thats why The one in Power in the world sends army and forces to change their constitutions and make the whole world constitutions as similar as possible , so that the world can avoid conflicts as much as possible.
You see its easier and better to play the chess Boards when everyone follows the same rule and conducts.
but if everyone plays chess their own way, there will only be chaos and unrest.
You see the war and misunderstandings we have now is all because of huge differences.
The world is getting smaller and smaller with fast transportation, Trades and communications and cities expansion close to borders.
But mindset is not ready to cross borders , thats why Cities explodes man.
not because we cant handle explosives ,
But because we create them.
You see everyone avoids North Korea, not because everyone hates North Korea ,
but because we hate their constitutions and Conduct.
So , to make a Jungle man to be able to live in a civilized world, he has to change the way he do, and Learn the new ways of Living, so you can communicate with the rest of the world.
yes i agree heart fully.
@@navneetparmar3084 amomg the communist countries only china is growing strong thats because their leaders is dedicated n one more thing thry are atheist n kept religion out of politics while in india its impossible even if india is communist religion cant be kept out this religious issue is the reason why india isnt progressing at all
India has been a mine of wealth for everyone beyond the Indus river, since almost 2000ys.
shadanan 5000 bro
2000 😂 ?! 5000 years
**6000 years
shadanan: Yet Indians couldn’t even manage their own chattels. Divided amongst themselves and letting foreign bodies rob their wealth and gold. Case in point: “Kohinoor”
Indians seem to be very incompetent to me. Just a load of talking and that’s it!🤨😂
@@Aven-Sharma1991 exactly
13:27 Malabathrum is Indian bay leaf, not cinnamon.
@@LuisAldamiz The name Malabathrum comes from the Sanskrit word Tamālapatram, which means Tamāla leaf. It's from the same family as Cinnamon, but we use the leaves like bay leaf is in stews and rice.
@@LuisAldamiz They don't taste like Laurel leaf, but they aren't too cinnamony, only slightly. But they behave like the laurel leaf in the sense that they impart a sort of background aroma to a liquid. The aroma is somewhere in the direction of clove.
The Romans might have also imported cinnamon, but Malabathrum was definitely the Indian bay leaf since the derivation of that word has the word "-bathrum
What even is Indian Cinnamon? Cinnamon comes from Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka it isn't native to India
There seems to be some confusion over the names here.
Cinnamon is obtained from the bark of the same tree whose leaves are called Indian bay leaf, therefore, the word Malabathrum can refer to both cinnamon and Indian bay leaf. Also, Cinnamon and laurel/bay laurel belong to the same family Lauraceae (but distinct genera).
I have tee in my house garden this tree in magalore in India skin called cinnamon and fruit called cloves and leave called bay leaves
I am happy u discovered the new views trade route of india...wait for 1 month u will also prosper like other youtubers..
You nailed it.
New "digital" trade route to success and prosperity,,,😂😂😂😂
@Aryan Sharma that is what he meant. Due to a large population with varied interests..it will not be difficult rather easy to grow via Indian audiences.
True 😄
Please do a video on the Cholas Empire (It had some history with Southeast Asia), Then Gupta Empire (brought the golden age of India and inventors of 0. Basically, Classical India at it's max potential), the Kushan Empire (Indo-Sino-Greco Empire sitting on the silk road). For Islamic Empires, Delhi Sultanate (The Mamluk Dynasty and Khilji dynasty)
Chola Empire is very very underrated.
Kushan Empire was not "Indo-Sino-Greco Empire", what the hell does that even mean? Kushans were originally a subtribe of Yuezhi people who are thought to be Tocharians. They adopted some Indian and Greek customs but that doesnt make them Indian or Greek!
@@Potatoman1578 they were tocharian ,not yuezi were thought of turk ....they were patron of dharma , they were follower of hinduism and Mahayan buddhism ..their capital was shifted to Mathura
@@Potatoman1578 Tocharian were cousin of indo- aryans. Tamir basin was there homeland until turks and mongol slaughtered them
@@Potatoman1578 They controlled the areas that were once Indo-Greek kingdoms. They had relations with the Bactrians and the Chinese. The Yuezhi people fled due to Chinese, dude.
Wars and battles are overrated in history.
Please continue with videos about economy.
We mustn't leave out culture, religion, and philosophy too. History is a big jigsaw puzzle, we need more pieces to piece the big picture
Ryrphoros in college we generally study more about politics economy and culture than wars and battles (and even so more in it's repercussion than in it's own)
@RAJU PEDDADA No, wars are politics with bloodshed (as Mao said), they are the extension of it, there's a lot more to history than war
@RAJU PEDDADA Economy is more important than wars. There is a testosterone induced obsession and imbalance with war history... a fetish that blinds people to reality. Many people know war history, very few know economic history. Leaving out economics or placing them as secondary in importance is detrimental to the basic understanding of the infrastructure of history. Most wars are determined by economic power, not military skill per capita/wealth. It is also a myth that war drives advancement. War alone only drives destruction and poverty. War and the threat of war can be a motivation for technological advancement, but there are many such motivations. There are also other economic requirements for this to happen such as surviving economic infrastructures. When this is knocked out of balance by too much war it will eat away at the economic infrastructure too much and there will be a decline. If there is a "healthy" balance of investment in war and economic infrastructure this can cause great advancement. However, as I mentioned, there can be other motivations for advancement besides war. So if the aforementioned investment in war was replaced by investment of these other motivations, even greater prosperity would come about... simply due to getting rid of the needless waste of resources and investment in human life caused by war.
But in the comments there'll always be wars....
i want more historical videos on india
There will be more. Share this one!
@@KingsandGenerals OK.. But before you release please confirm the knowledge what you have been shared. So better don't spread one half part history.
@@KingsandGenerals Can u do about ancient Pandyan empire in south India? Especially their navy.
Its awesome that you are concentrating on India now
1)Chatrapati shivaji
2)Chanakya
3)Maurya empire
Are the few topics that you should definitely cover
@Godtuber Adibu Aurangzeb and khilji??? Kings who murdered and raped thousands in the name of Islam(peaceful religion).
I am guessing you are married to your cousin,never went to school,supporter of Isis and fuck goats in your spare time
Am I right. BROTHER?
большой половой член why the heck are you even mad about someone suggesting something???, Are you a kid or just simply racist?
большой половой член wow, you're a disgrace
большой половой член and you called us evil, while threatening us, so what that makes you?
@большой половой член Half Hindu half Russian
Broooo You must be like a super soldier ☺
I live in one of the most remote towns of central India and even here archaeologists have found Roman Gold coins in the river bed.
I love this series where you are focusing on how trade impact history, it really is an eye opener
Thanks, more on the way!
yep... i already bored with war & Conquest, and want to know more about the secrets of long lasting rich & mighty empires
@@KingsandGenerals Please do the silk road and how it went from the richest part of the world to the poorest, it's really is a diffrent perspective, we should learn in school wich we don't
@@youcancallmeneck5178 why did it become the poorest?
@@acadianalien Take everything I say with a grain of salt because I dont have any sources, but todays centralasia used to flourish in trade between Europe and China long time ago. When we Europeans found faster seaway to India and America the silkroad slowly died out and the region went into poverty. This observation of minw can ve wrong thou and I would happily be proven wrong
*Everybody loves to trade* Indian spices in history.
¿ Would be fun to find out what the Indians were buying from Rome ?
propaganda ;)
Alcohol
@@indrason6974 olive oil
@@indrason6974 olive oil
Mostly horses, women, wine. Still, Indian traders were going in huge trade surplus.
🙏 *"Spice Garden of the World"* 🇮🇳
Alongside Indonesia and parts of southern China
India still outclasses them though
@@abthedragon4921
😎🙏 India + Asia = Indonesia
Chinese Dragon ✖️
Lumarian Yali ✔️
Indonesia is Spice's Heaven of the World
@@meowung9848 hahahha who told you
The spices, bought by Romans from India, might be growing in Kerala in India, Srilanka and Indonesia.
During the Gupta empire India saw a period of renaissance also stated India as "The Golden Sparrow of the World"
These Arabian destroyed india
@@kunalsharma9087 Arabian did not destroy India.
It was indian so called "Raja saheb" who invited them to attack neighbor kingdom due to their "pity difference" and "self interest".
Once invaders attacked indian territory.They got fascinated by indian prosperity leading them to conquer whole indian territory, even their inviters who had called them from desert terrian.
@@ranvijaykumar8961 u are right
Bastard of ARYAVART
@@kunalsharma9087 Arabs never ruled in India
I believe it was Pliny the Elder who wrote about trade with India in one of his writings. He was complaining that Roman gold was being drained buying Indian goods (LMAO that sounds familiar in this era with USA and China XD)
That's true when British left India they took with them 45 trillion dollars worth gold , but India has no gold mines or reserves . It must have been the Roman Gold they india earned through trade
@@soumyadipchakraborty3354 Actually the extraction was much slowe rand happened over 200 years. They banned industry in India and made the people only produce raw materials. Then they set a fixed (low) price to buy all the raw materials, take them to England, process, ship and sell them at India for high prices. Whether it was the textitle industry (their famous textile city was built this way) or metal inudstry or anything else, this was the case. After nearly 200 years of such one-sided exploitation, India had no industry and most passed down industry knowledge was gone or just in writing.
It was done to other colonies more directly and brutally but more subtly against India because we had a much larger population and had the ability to revolt and become independent much easier.
There was no fake paper currency at that time. Gold was real currency. So we used gold.
Firstly great video cool animations!!
As an Indian- It was confusing for me growing up that history books and Google say "Vasco da Gama discovered India in 1498". But like we had one of the oldest civilizations that were trading with the west? also, we traded so much with Mesopotamian, Greek, and other civilizations? Let alone the fact that it was a thriving and progressing land with its own education systems, trades, crafts, etc. before "we were discovered". It wasn't just a piece of barren land with no people on it that it needed to be "discovered".
The narrative in the textbooks needs to change to something else than "India was discovered".
Vasco De Gama didn't discover India, he discovered a viable sea route to India. Either the textbooks which you read are wrong or you remember them wrong.
@@zippyparakeet1074 No, I’m Indian, and I distinctly remember reading that Vasco De Gama “discovered” India. It was pretty confusing at first, but then it got more annoying than anything honestly. The textbooks here in India are infuriating because they gloss over our rich history and trade with other civilisations and our own prosperous empires to focus overwhelmingly on the Muslim invasions, Mughals, Delhi sultanate and then most of all, on the British. If you were to read only those history textbooks and nothing else, you’d be led to believe that India was a backwards land with foolish kings who were just lazing about, waiting to be conquered and pillaged. There’s just no justice done to the sheer impact India had on the ancient world, and it’s just a shame
@@nunyabusiness4752 I am pretty sure our book clearly mentioned vasco da gama discovered new sea route to India. I think you are the one needs to check your book first. And even book mentioned why European needed new sea route too.
Amazing stuff. Economy is so poorly covered by History textbooks compared to Politics! Thank you for your hard work and please do more videos on economic pillars of ancient civilizations.
Love these "ancient economics" vids. Always fascinating to understand how trade + culture grew
More on the way!
As much as I love K&G, I have to admit history of indian subcontinent stays criminally underrated in this channel (not sure if it is for not having enough sponsors or something else)
I find myself enthralled by yalls videos. I absolutely love binging on the many series. Keep up the amazing content, by far some of the best on the tube!!
We will, thanks!
Amazing to see how much people traveled and moved around back then ! Great job once again. Bought Imperator : Rome some days ago through the link of one of your previous videos btw. Keep up the great work !
Thank you very much! We will!
I'm glad you made this video, historic and ancient trade are so fascinating to me!
Excellent and informative! Looking forward to next instalment...
Thank you for your books, good sir!
Wow i am very surprised sir . because i don't know beetwen acient Rome and India also trade.2000 year ago my land India is connected Rome.its amazing sir .i am frome gujarat india gujarat port is also most oldest sea port.lothal and haddapa is ancinent port Tarde and business worldvide... Gujarat land around 1630 k.m sea.i am so happy because ancient Rome conction to India beacuse i love Rome ....thank you so much sir
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Mahesh Patel yes the roman empire traded with india...but persian empire jealous..who knows maybe the roman would ally the indian states if further action would be allowed by the persians
no man thanks for informing
@ACHAEMENID WARRIOR yes i accept my English is very weak. beacuse English is not my mother land language. I hope you understand.thank you brothers
@ACHAEMENID WARRIOR C'mon English just a *Language* please don't compare it with literacy & standards
What a fun n informative video. It helps to talk about historical subjects that aren't normally talked about. Shame that it can't be done more often. My thanks to those who made this video a reality.
This is a great video. Thanks for sharing. I recommend following potential videos for India - 1. Samudragupta - 4th century Gupta Emperor compared to Napoleon 2. Kannauj Triangle - Age of 7-10th century when India was rule by a trio of three empires - Rashtrakuta, Parmar and Pratihar 3. 3rd battle of panipat (you have covered the first and second). 4. Lalitaditya - North Indian king in the 8th century.
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The kannauj triangle had pala, pratihara and rashtrakuta empires not parmar.
Fantastic video! It's quite hard to find information about Roman trade and economy compiled so well, really looking forward to future videos on roman economics!
The near opposite happened under the British
@большой половой член cow worshiper
@Godtuber Adibu well actually see the point that most traitors were maratha and aikh makes sense as there were move of them than there were muslims. And plenty of muslims betrayed their rulers too. The Sikhs and marathas both fought against the British for years. They only collaborated with them to defeat empires like Hyderabad and mysore. But they still fought against the British when the time came.
@Godtuber Adibu sikhs and marathas gave shit to british in wars while muslims layed their arms in feet of british or french (in case of tipu sultan) every muslim nawab and even mughals accepted british authority without any resistance
It's fake Roman history...completely Hollywood scripted.. Roman Empire was tinny compared to China and India in terms of economy.. saying India got rich by trading with Rome is like saying America got rich trading with Somalia..China and India were 60%of world economy.. not Rome.. Rome was just a city state mainland and lots of barbarian tribal land around it
@@neinno8172 ah sorry
This video should be required viewing for Economics or Business students. Very enlightening and educational.
My favorite episode so far. Big fan of this channel. This was a whole side of roman life that I knew next to nothing about. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I am really loving these other historical videos. I love the battles, don't get me wrong, but these are a nice change of pace.
Both will continue to be released, so it is all good. :-)
The coastal part of Egypt and Arabia have been always important because of their strategic role in commerce with India and China. As I recall correctly, Saladin also used his army to conquer these parts alongside Yemen to use it as a trade center for gathering the money and budget in order to use it in crusade.
Moreover, by this way, you could bypass Iranian empires (Parthians and Sassanids) which acted as a middle man, often increased the price of the items which was bad specifically for Romans. However, after conquering Yemen in their later period, Sassanids made the situation worse for Eastern Roman Empire.
Boqoreh nope Ethiopia started as a colony of saba which the inscriptions at the old kingdom of damat which predates the rise Axum suggests that Ethiopia started as a colony of the Sabean kingdom and they spoke Sabaeic
I find it extremely fascinating when two different empires and cultures interact with each other.
People got along well 2000 years unlike today
Finally!!! Thank you soo much - loving these videos. Keep going!!! Much love.
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Than Europe stole all that Gold back from India...😑😑
Yup lol
@The Engineer Guy Yep $45 trillions in todays money , that's the amount that they stole.
@@preetikushwa7032 Why did you let them?
@@tomchch we had Gandhi like people filling our ancestors brain with non violence bullshit .
@@tomchch After the fall of megalomaniac Aurangzeb and his obsession against infidels and life long quest to destroy the Marathas India was basically bankrupt and Marathas thus couldn't keep up with the British invasions who had already put a strong foot on Bengal and some other parts. Then came the defeat of Marathas against Abdali where it sealed the deal for 250+ years after which uneducated masses left behind by British could only fight one another on communal points or breed like rabbits.
Fantastic ancient part of the world that doesn't get the spotlight it deserves. boggles my mind to see the role India played in world history and how we are taught almost next to nothing about it. the oldest continuous civilization on earth, from before the time of ancient egypt! beautiful.
@большой половой член what about Ethiopia and Anatolia?
@Cuck Slayer also Yangtze river valley
@Cuck Slayer Only if you're able to read synoptical publications in Russian )
As ancient China is not my main theme of interest i'm not keeping track of any wothy publucations in English on the topic. Sorry.
Empires grow by conquest but are sustained by trade. Your videos illustrate this concept in an interesting and entertaining way. Thanks for the great content.
Great channel - love how you guys show the influence of governing style/philosophy and economics on the shape of history!!
I find trade and stability building history way more interesting than battles and stuff. Thank you for sharing this rarely tought about subject.
More on the way!
i almost cried , long live ROME , long live INDIA!!!
I would love to see more videos on the trade and diplomatic aspects of the Roman Empire. I have always been fascinated how the Empire connected to and interacted with places they didn't directly rule like India, Ireland, China, Arabia, and african kingdoms like Aksum and Nubia.
Excellent video! Interesting data and the idea that 2k years later we can still get that data and is helping us understand the complexity of the Roman Empire, is astounding.
You are genius Kings & Generals...in very short with great confident voice clarity & nice video u produce anything so interesting way, that no one can avoid it...Thanks :D
I cannot believe my comment in the last video foretold of whether this trade made the empire rich! Woah!! Keep it up!!
Arikamedu- ancient port town near Pondicherry, south east coast of India. The site was identified as the port of Podouke, known as an "emporium" in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and Ptolemy. Digs have found Amphorae, Arretine ware, Roman lamps, glassware, glass and stone beads, and gems at the site. Based on these excavations, Wheeler concluded that the Arikamedu was a Greek (Yavana) trading post that traded with Rome, starting during the reign of Augustus Caesar, and lasted about two hundred years-from the late first century BCE to the first and second centuries CE. Subsequent investigation by Vimala Begley from 1989 to 1992 modified this assessment, and now place the period of settlement from the 2nd century BCE to the 8th century CE.
Love these videos on the roman economy. Im a bit fed up with the same as usual military stuff. Its nice to see explained so nicely the things that arent normally explained.
Thank you for this wonderful video!
Having enjoyed your excellent video about Ashoka, I am intrigued at how well you guys are able to tell Indian history and even convey our different thinking. I see you guys delved into some Tamil geo-politics here, but what might be an interesting topic for you guys to cover would be the Cholan maritime Empire. They were the rivals of the Pandyans and their South-East Asian subjugations marked the highest point in trade between the subcontinent and South-East Asia.
Hard to discuss trade with holy India without discussing the role of Ganesha and Hanuman. These Gods blessed the trade routes and even joined forces with Roman deities like Mars, Jupiter, and Mercury to fight the evil gods of the Persian empire! So much lore and possibilities of discovery.
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Guys, I LOVE this channel. Thank you so much.
Awesome Work. Way to go.. All the best with your future endeavours
please make a vedio on Ram Pyari Gurjar , a lady who defeated taimur and kicked out him from North India and because of the wound given by her he died
😂😂😂
Rampyari and jograj
@Mayur Kanth You did not get the sarcasm.
Also, a video regarding the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, a 1st century c.e. Red Sea guidebook for would be traders detailing the trade, ports, and civilizations they would interact with from Roman Egypt to Arabia to modern day Somalia to India.
Fascinating stuff, really recommend you check it out and hopefully make a vid about, as it's relatively unknown.
very nice presentation ,linkages between different empires & economies drawn well.
You sure love History ,it shows in your work.
keep it up.
Thank you very much!
This channel has come so far. I still remember the simple battles and ok graphics of the first videos
Love for S.P.Q R. from India 💕
If you're planning to make more videos on India in the future, I hope you make a few on:
Shivaji Maharaj
Peshwa Bajirao 1
The Vijaynagar Empire
The Revolt of 1857
The First Anglo Maratha War
There's just so much I would like to see you make into documentaries. I hope you consider a couple of these. I'll be expecting more excellent content from you guys in the future, nonetheless.
Cheers.
@@Rhyghar yup. They already made a video on The Battle of Haldighati
Also on the first two battles of Panipat.
I'd say it's only suitable that there be a video on The Battles of Tarain as well.
The Battle of Palkhed, The Battle of Pawankhed
The conquests of Krishnadevaraya,
The wars of Peshwa Bajirao.
The Revolt of 1857
These are all topics which reflect the history of India's indigenous culture and people. Something which is often ignored, even in Indian education.
And maybe add Sikh empire as they if you don't know ( if you are Indian and don't know about them shame on you) were also like the Maratha's and of course fought the mughals
@@JaspreetSingh-dh4nf of course I know about them. I hope one day they'll make a video about Ranjit Singh. Or Guru Tegh Bahadur also known as "Hind ki Chaadar". One can only hope.
BUMP for Vijayanagar and Bajirao Ballal \m/
Also the Glorious Magadha Empire under the golden legacy of Mauryan dynasty!
Fantastic stuff. Keep it up, guys!
Omg this is soo fascinating !!! Love your ur content and vids we learn so much from it !!! 🙏🏼👏🏼🙏🏼 bravo and thank you !!!
Thanks for watching!
It's amazing to see how complex and interconnected the ancient world truly was.
This is the 4th Video am watching in these series. I am from Kerala, an Actor in Hindi Films and lives in Mumbai. Heard many stories from my Grandfather about Roman Trade and buying spices from Kerala. Very good information, thanks.
jaco chakku kerala means not malayalees old Tamils were ruling kerala
@@user-jw8yk9ki1r old tamil nadu was inhabitants of aboriginals and Adivasis so it's not yours according to your theory
@@elonpurushottam5189
Nair, menon or Namboothri spotted 😂😂😂
Very interesting video. Look forward to more trade videos.
as always your videos are GREAT !
Pandiyan dynasty is missing in the list..... Roman trade with Pandiyan 👑👑👑👑👑
Anonymous P because we all know that pandiyanin Rajiyathil it was ouiyalala mostly ..
What about chola?
Pandya is only one trade with Rome and Greeks and Egypt
@@user-jw8yk9ki1r dude what?...u can clearly see that the satavahanas capitaled in amaravathi were the ones who did most of the trade with the greeks and romans..stop claiming shit like an idiot
I don't think Romans directly traded with Pandiyas as West cost was ruled by Cheras.
You should definitely do a video on Chatrapati Shivaji - a prominent king of maratha empire.
burningknight7 why what’s special about him?
@@danteslemagnifique1901 he was a first low-caste king who defeated Mughals(under emperor Aurangzeb), Britishers, Portuguese, Deccan sultanatesetc.
@@pisslamicrapepublicofporki3947
Nah he belongs to warrior class known as 'Kshtriya'.He was Maratha and the most imp thing he was the first king to oppose caste based system.Also he captured 350 forts from Mughals in his life time later after his death his son was even more dangerous who won 120 wars without losing single and he prevent Mughals British Portuguese combined army at Goa by Himself alone.And the same kingdom of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj later destroyed whole Mughal and ruled India for 150 years before British came.
Also, he's often known as the father of the Indian Navy.
@Nir Sen if looting the enemy and guerrilla warfare is being a looter and thug, sure.
Another good video.good job guys!
Great vid . Loved every second .. keep it up
Thank you!
After watching your vedios I look around of my area with different perspective, so many different kingdoms and people have ruled and lived in the area I am living now
Glad to hear that!
We were rich in culture, wealth, self sustainable in B.C Era as if I have to say this 😅 but still!! , we Indians was, are and will continue to be one of the dominant civilization in this planet,many more contributions to come by from our motherland jai hind, thank you for this wonderful upload goosebumps bro✌️.
Fantastic video. Great Analysis. I can not wait for more of these videos on the Roman Economy. There was a Cicero quote about a debt crisis in "Asia" thar caused property values in Italy to crash. Would love to know more about the complexities of Ancient Empires and Early Globalization. Great stuff! Thank you.
Thanks, more on the way!
Very informative, thx for showing and teaching this to us.
Thanks for watching!
Can you do a video on port of SURAT as it was the biggest ports in entire history before the industrial revolution which rivaled huge ports of this time too but went into decline and would be an interseting study of how a rich port can turn into nothing because of some reasons and the world can learn a lot many lessons from it
Rishabh Sharma bollocks
Archaeological evidences like pottery and coins with Roman inscriptions have been found at Arikamedu, Muzuris (cranganore,Kerala) which was an ancient port city, Tumulis,Poomphuhar which were also ancient port cities located along east coast.
Very good. I wish you post more content like this. Other than only battles or wars
Really well done video, thank you
Thanks!
Isn't mutually beneficial trade the best kind? Hopefully we can see more of this in the future
Before people relied on the trade it was mutually beneficial though for most of it's history it favoured the Indians.
@@ayushkumar-bg1xf So a world where China and India control all the trade would be a fair world?
@@cv4809 @constantine it's not a zero sum game, asians gaining more market power is not the end of the world for westerners, also lots of old models for economics don't matter as we rely more and more on information as opposed to raw materials to create wealth
If you guys want to get a current geopolitical point of view of the world I recommend Peter Zeihan. ruclips.net/video/BHr999RGPQw/видео.html
Why won't Pakistan allow India to trade peacefully with them then?
Would be nice if you could do a video about roman courencies etc. To better understand the scale of this numbers. I tried to look it up myself, but the results weren't cohesive. A video like that would be also a nice attachment to this series of ancient economy
Nice video like always
Wow,interesting! Thank you😃👍
Incredible content as always👌
The Indus Valley Civilization was trading with the Mesopotamians via the Indian Ocean in 2500 BC. In 2000 BC both areas of central Asia (Afghanistan/Turkmenistan/Uzbekistan) and India had full on walled cities and huge civilizations trading with each other in addition to Mesopotamia which is seen as the "cradle of civilization". They are called the BMAC culture and IVC culture. Look it up, the world was way more connected than we think and there is a lot more we don't know. Like WAYYYY more.
Btw guys, your podcast is great and if anyone is reading this, I highly recommend it. I just listened to the Celtic episode and I am enjoying the fact that you are branching away from the purely military side of the history as this video.
Thank you very much!
@@KingsandGenerals I have certain doubts regarding that Indian Roman trade. Are the historians-Matt Hollis and Ilkin Gambar present in that comments section? I by the way like your video very much 👍. Thanks for that.
awesome video! very interesting topic!
Thank you!
Wow, that was really interesting. Good stuff
More on the way!