Alexander of Macedon : Thunder Of Macedon

Описание: Alexander the Great’s conquest (334–323 BCE) was a sweeping military campaign that carried Macedonian power from Greece to the edge of India, dismantling the Persian Empire and reshaping the ancient world.

After securing Greece, Alexander crossed the Hellespont in 334 BCE and defeated Persian satraps at the Battle of the Granicus. He followed this with a decisive victory over King Darius III at Issus (333 BCE), opening Asia Minor and the Levant. Rather than rush east, Alexander secured the eastern Mediterranean, capturing Tyre after a brutal siege and taking Egypt, where he founded Alexandria and was proclaimed pharaoh.

Turning east again, Alexander crushed Darius at Gaugamela (331 BCE), leading to the fall of Babylon, Susa, and Persepolis, effectively ending the Achaemenid Empire. After Darius’ death, Alexander pursued control of the empire’s eastern provinces, fighting hard campaigns in Bactria and Sogdiana, marrying Roxana to consolidate rule and adopting Persian customs to legitimize his authority.

In 326 BCE, Alexander crossed into the Indian subcontinent, defeating King Porus at the Battle of the Hydaspes. Though victorious, his army—exhausted and facing unfamiliar climates and powerful kingdoms—refused to march farther east at the Hyphasis River. Alexander turned back, enduring a deadly return through the Gedrosian Desert, and reached Babylon in 323 BCE, where he died soon after.



Alexander’s conquests created a vast empire linking Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian worlds, spreading Hellenistic culture across three continents and permanently transforming the political and cultural landscape of the ancient Near East.

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