The Baluch people of today are descendants of ancient
Median and
Persian tribes. Historical references of ancient Persia have made it possible to arrive at this conclusion.
Maka is mentioned by Greek historian
Herodotus as one of the early
satraps of
Cyrus the Great, who successfully united several ancient Iranian tribes to create an empire.
[13][14] In the Behistun Inscription,
Darius the Great mentions Maka as one of his eastern territories.
[15] Darius is recorded to have personally led his elite
forces, whose ranks were restricted to those with
Persian,
Mede or
Elamiteancestry, to fight the invading
Scythians of
Asia[16]and then led the conquest towards the
Indian sub-continent,
[17][18][19] where he conquered
Sindh in 519 BC, constituted it as his 20th
Satrapy, and made use of the oceans there.
[20][21] Darius wanted to know more about Asia, according to Herodotus; he also wished to know where the "Indus (which is the only river save one that produces crocodiles) emptied itself into the sea".
[22] The present region of
Makran, which is inhabited by Baluch people, derived its name from the word "
Maka". The
Babylonians had also made voyages using Maka to communicate with
India.
[23]Maka had also communicated with
Euphrates,
Tigris and
Indus valley, objects from the
Harappanculture have also been found in modern-day
Oman, other
archaeology suggest that Maka was exporting
copper. Herodotus mentions the inhabitants of Maka as "Mykians" who were also previously involved in several conquests with
Cyrus the Great and after the conquest of
Egyptwith
Cambyses,
[24] they went to
Sindh in command of
Darius I, and also took in army of
Xerxes the great at the battle of
Thermopylae, where they were dressed and equipped the same as
Pactyans,
Utians and
Paricanians, the tribes adjacent to the Mykians. The word
Maka later became
Makran as it is common in closely related ancient
Avestan and
Old Persian languages to use "an" and "ran" at the end of plurals,
[25] which then translates as "the land of Mykians". They are mentioned as "the men from Maka" in
daevainscriptions. The "
daeva inscription" is one of the most important of all
Achaemenid inscriptions; in the Baluchi language,
dêw translates as "giant
devilor
monster". Mykians were also responsible for many inventions, such as
qanats and underground drainage galleries that brought water from aquifers on the piedmont to gardens or palm groves on the plains. These inventions were important reasons behind the success of the
Achaemenid Empire and survival of Mykians in their largely harsh
natural environment. Other inscriptions also record that
gold,
silver,
lapis lazuli,
turquise,
cornalin,
cedar wood,
wood and the decoration for the relief at
Susa were from Maka.
[26] The Mykians of the other side of ancient Maka, the present-day region of Balochistan and Sindh had later taken independence because they are not mentioned in the book written by
Arrian of Nicomedia about campaigns of
Alexander the Great but he only mentions the Oman side of Maka which he calls "Maketa". The reasons for this may have been the arguably unjust rule of Xerxes.
[27][27][28][29] It is highly likely that the ancient Mykians were one of the Median or Persian tribes and an important part of Achaemenid empire, as they are not mentioned as one of the ancient Iranian tribes that
Cyrus the Great and
Darius Ihad fought with. Cyrus himself was of both Persian and Median ancestry as his father was
Cambyses I, who is believed to have married
Mandane of Media, the daughter of
Astyages, a Median king...
Lol we were converted by "force" by Arabs you claim without any proof!??
Hmmmm ... Why coz your ancestors were defeated and humiliated throughout the history and you are butthurt coz of it??
We might be nonmuslims 1500 years back but were never passive pagans but monthiests n superior to you .. And history proves that fact and not bs rants caused by a burnt rectum.. Deal with it..
