Question

Analyse any two cultural effects of interactions with the Persians.​

Answer 1

In the sixth century B.C. when Magadha was striving to build up an extensive empire in India, invasions of foreigners started on the north-west frontier. The first who tried to penetrate into India were the Persians and the next were Greeks who entered India under their famous ruler and conqueror, Alexander of Macedonia.

India had relations with Persia or Iran in ancient times. The Aryans who settled in India belonged to the same racial stock which had first entered Persia. The similarity in language and gods of the Rig-vedic Indian Aryans, with those of Persia, prove that India and Persia had maintained mutual contacts in those days.