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A new sky screen appeared, and a map of India appeared in the camera, accompanied by some ancient Indian war movies.

It must be said that many of the films made by the Indian brothers are very good.

Although the scene looks a bit exaggerated, the visual effect is full.

The ancients also found it very exciting to watch.

Because the film and television clips are a mix of wars from various dynasties.

So we can see that the people who appear in the war also have their own characteristics.

There are all kinds of skin colors and facial features.

Tianmu also slowly began to tell the story.

【Discuss the history of warfare in ancient India.】

There is a crucial geographical node that is almost impossible to bypass.

【That is the Khyber Pass.】

[Almost all foreign forces that attempted to conquer ancient India regarded this place as the key to opening the door to India. ]

[This mountain pass is therefore known as the only lifeline of the Indian Peninsula. ]

[The Khyber Pass is located in the Hindu Kush Mountains. ]

【It is the largest and most important pass in the mountain range. 】

[It is located at the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the eastern entrance is only 16 kilometers away from Peshawar, Pakistan. ]

[The pass is formed by two small river valleys originating from the Khyber Mountains. The valleys run from northwest to southeast and are 53 kilometers long. ]

[Its narrowest point is less than 600 meters, and the peaks on both sides are towering, with heights ranging from 60 to 90 meters.]

[The special geographical conditions mean that the mountain is not closed in winter and is accessible all year round.]

【With such natural advantages, the Khyber Pass has become a major transportation route connecting South Asia with West Asia and Central Asia. 】

[From a geographical perspective, the Indian peninsula is a place blessed with unique feng shui. ]

[It is like a continent isolated from the rest of the world, so it is called the South Asian subcontinent. ]

[The peninsula is surrounded by the vast Indian Ocean on the southwest and southeast sides. ]

[To the north stands the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the roof of the world, with an average altitude of over 4 meters. ]

[On the northwest side, there is the Hindu Kush Mountains with an average altitude of about 5 meters. ]

[On the west side is the Sulaiman Mountains with an average altitude of 2 meters]

[On the east side are the Rakhine Mountains, about 2 meters above sea level, and dense tropical jungles. ]

[These mountains and plateaus are like a natural Great Wall, firmly guarding the South Asian subcontinent. ]

[In ancient times, it was extremely difficult to enter this area. Anyone would think that this place was impregnable and extremely safe.]

Outside the sky.

Qin Dynasty.

Ying Zheng nodded: "Yes, this Indian region is surrounded by top natural barriers."

"It is indeed impregnable and extremely safe."

"In comparison, although the Guanzhong area of ​​our Great Qin is known as a land of four barriers."

"But when it comes to the difficulty of defense, it can't be compared with India at all!"

"This Indian area is so safe."

Basically, as long as the ancient people knew a little about military affairs, they could see that India had strong defensive capabilities under the protection of natural barriers.

And the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di was also very puzzled and said:
"I didn't know much about India before, but now it seems that it is indeed a place of natural danger."

“But how did India, with such strong defenses and natural defenses, get conquered so easily?”

……

The sky curtain also continues to tell the story.

【However, the reality is shocking. 】

[The Indian peninsula seemed indestructible, but the ancient Indians were never able to hold on to it. ]

[The key is that the Khyber Pass is undefended.]

[It was this gap that became the fatal factor that influenced the course of ancient India’s history for thousands of years.]

[The Indian Peninsula once gave birth to the brilliant ancient Indian civilization. The Indus River Basin and the Ganges River Basin are both important birthplaces of ancient agricultural civilization. ]

[The indigenous people here are Dravidians.]

[Around 2000 BC, the Aryans living in the grasslands south of the Ural Mountains began their journey southward. ]

[When they arrived at the Iranian plateau, the Hindu Kush and Sulaiman Mountains stretched out before them.]

[It's like an insurmountable barrier.]

[Just when the Aryans hesitated, the Khyber Pass unexpectedly appeared before them and became the key passage to open the door to ancient India.]

[After passing through the mountain pass, a vast plain appeared before them, like a paradise.]

【After the Aryans successfully settled in, they began to rule this land. 】

[He also created the caste system that has influenced India for thousands of years.]

[The Dravidians, the former indigenous inhabitants, were classified as Shudras and untouchables and fell to the bottom of society. ]

【It is for this reason that in India today, there are people with dark skin, people with fair skin, and a large number of mixed-race people. 】【Since the Aryans opened the door to the South Asian subcontinent, over the long thousands of years, many foreign races, including Persians, Greeks, Sakas, Yuezhi, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, etc., have invaded this place through the Khyber Pass. 】

When the commentators saw this, they couldn’t hold back their excitement.

When the stars of humanity shine.

"Come when you want, leave when you want?"

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"This is really a bunch of immortals."

"Brother San is really tired, the plague gods come one after another. "

"It's a pity that the peak Tang Dynasty didn't go to help, otherwise the Tang army's entry through the Khyber Pass would definitely be a famous historical painting!"

……

Canopy:

[Until the Age of Discovery arrived. ]

[European colonists became the first foreign civilization in history to conquer India without passing through the Khyber Pass.]

[The Khyber Pass is strategically located, and it can be said that "one man guarding the pass is impossible for ten thousand men to break through." ]

[Why didn't the ancient Indians build defenses here to resist foreign enemies for thousands of years? ]

There are many complex reasons behind this.

[From a natural perspective, the Khyber Pass is located in a high mountain valley and opens to the east. ]

[In summer, moist air currents from the Indian Ocean bring a lot of water vapor, which can easily cause heavy rainfall.]

[This leads to frequent natural disasters such as landslides and mud-rock flows.]

[These disasters will cause serious damage to checkpoint facilities, making it more difficult to maintain the facilities. ]

[Moreover, construction and operation here are extremely costly and face numerous difficulties.]

[However, these are only secondary factors.]

The key question is.

[Who will build the fortifications of the Khyber Pass? ]

【Looking back at Indian history, perhaps we can find the answer. 】

【Indian history can be roughly divided into three stages. 】

[The first stage is ancient Indian civilization, which originated in the Indus River Basin. ]

【At that time, this land had not yet formed a unified country, and only a few city-states existed. 】

[In such an ancient period, it was obviously unrealistic to ask these city-states to build huge fortifications. ]

[Then it entered the second stage - the era of Indian states after the Aryans entered South Asia. ]

[After the Aryans arrived, they moved the civilization of the Indus River Basin to the Ganges River Basin and established more than a dozen small slave states there.]

[By the 6th century BC, 16 large countries had formed in the plains of the Indus and Ganges rivers.]

[Indian history is known as the "16 Powerful Kingdoms". 】

[Among these 16 countries, Magadha, located in the lower reaches of the Ganges, was the most powerful, and its capital, Rajagriha, was of great importance.]

[It can be said that Magadha was the core of later Indian indigenous civilization. ]

[The caste system created by the Aryans also became the foundation of the Indian native empire in later generations.]

[At this point, some people may wonder: Where did the ancient Indians who once lived in the Indus River Basin go? ]

[In fact, some of them migrated south to southern India, while others stayed in the Indus and Ganges river basins and became slaves or inferior people of the Aryans.]

[To put it bluntly, they are the lowest class of Shudras and the "untouchables" who are not even worthy of being ranked. ]

【From this we can see that in the second stage of Indian history. 】

[The core area that influenced India's native civilization is no longer the Indus River Basin, but the Ganges River Basin. ]

[More precisely, it is the lower reaches of the Ganges River. ]

Outside the sky.

Southern Song Dynasty.

When Yue Fei saw this, he was also filled with emotion.

"According to Tianmu, ancient India had already established their own civilization thousands of years ago."

"But one careless move led to an invasion by foreign conquerors."

"Not only will the country be destroyed, but the family will also be ruined."

"Even the native Indian people have since become slaves and inferior people."

"This...hey!"

Yue Fei could not help but think of the northern Han people who were lying in the dust of the barbarians.

Their lives under the rule of the Jin people.

How unbearable is it?

Now the Song Dynasty is still resisting.

If one day, the Song Dynasty was really completely conquered by the Jin Kingdom.

Will the status of the Han people in the world then be reduced to that of the Dravidians in India? (End of this chapter)