The history of Vegetarianism  started in ancient India and ancient Greece.
Really? So Indians and Greeks were the first vegetarians on the planet
History of vegetarianism
The earliest records of vegetarianism as a concept and practice amongst a significant number of people are from ancient India and the ancient Greek civilizations in southern Italy and Greece. In both instances, the diet was closely connected with the idea of nonviolence toward animals (called "ahimsa" in India), and was promoted by religious groups and philosophers.
Following the Christianization of the Roman Empire in late antiquity (4th–6th centuries), vegetarianism nearly disappeared from Europe. Several orders of monks in medieval Europe restricted or
Ancient Greece–ancient India relations
For the Ancient Greeks "India" () meant only the upper Indus till the time of Alexander the Great. After "India" meant to the Greeks most of the northern half of the Indian subcontinent (including present-day India and Pakistan). The Greeks referred to the Indians as "Indói" (), literally meaning "the people of the Indus River". Indians called the Greeks Yonas and “Yavanas” from Ionians.
Mythology.
Megasthenes wrote about the