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What can /his/ tell me about the Seleucids?
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What can /his/ tell me about the Seleucids?
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The Indian emperor concluded a peace treaty which involved giving the king several hundred Indian war elephants which were used to great effect throughout the west.
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They dominated huge swathes of the middle east and Western Asia, having an empire stretching from the highlands of Anatolia to the fertile Indo-Gangetic plains. Toward the end of their Dynasty (150 BCE - 63 BCE) they were driven back by the expanding Parthian Empire, before finally being absorbed by the Roman Republic.
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Its a very popular theory in academics that seleukos I was in fact born in sub saharan africa and he was a black man.
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Actual theory or WE WAZ theory?
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Sounds like a Wewuz theory, but then again, I don't know if they would claim Wewuz on the laughing stock of empires so it just might be possible.
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