Consider the following statements Bactrian rsquo s Greeks were the 1st to invade India Sakas who inv...........

Ancient and Medival History Mauryan and Post Maurayan

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Consider the following statements

Bactrian’s Greeks were the 1st to invade India.
Sakas who invaded India after Bactrian’s were able to occupy more territory than Bactrian’s.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?

Only 1

Only 2

1 and 2

None of these

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Explanation:

1 and 2

Demetrius was the first Indo-Greek king to gain territories in India. It is possible that he made his first conquests as general for his father, a view supported by the Heliodorus inscription.
The 1st century BCE Greek historian Apollodorus, quoted by Strabo, affirms that the Bactrian Greeks, led by Demetrius I and Menander, conquered India and occupied a larger territory than the Macedonians under Alexander the Great, going beyond the Hyphasis (modern Beas River) towards the Himalayas.