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Martin Wallgren
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 Posted: Wed 07 Mar, 2007 10:45 pm Post subject: Yevzhi, who where they? |
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Here´s a little question...
In my copy of the Swedish translation Atlas Hisorique. L´Histoire de l´Humanité de la Préhistoire á nos jours I found in the timeline a quick little reference
First Century BC: The Hunns from Mongolia became a shield agains the indoeuropean Yvezhi who returned back to Central Asia where they destroyed the Hellenism...
Who are thise Yvezhi??
Have anyone heard of them?
Thanx!
Swordsman, Archer and Dad
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Sam Barris
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Do you mean these guys?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuezhi
Pax,
Sam Barris
"Any nation that draws too great a distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools." —Thucydides
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Martin Wallgren
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Yeah! I think so!
Is there anyone who know what impact they had on Greece and Rome. The article say they where an Indoeuropean culture, how do we know that?
Swordsman, Archer and Dad
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Lafayette C Curtis
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Not to Greece an dRome as such, but to the Hellenistic kingdoms in Bactria and northern India--better known as the Greco-Bactrian and Greco-Indian cultures. You'd probably be able to get more information about them by Googling about the White Huns and the Kushans as well as the Yuezhi (or "Yueh-chih" in Wade-Giles) proper.
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This is a standard topic