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When Seleucus received 500 Indian war elephants as part of a treaty how were the men (or women?) responsible for the elephants treated? Were they now slaves to Seleucus or did the Greeks know how to operate the elephants themselves?

by /u/Hippie-Viking in /r/AskHistorians

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