How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...
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What if the Persians had defeated Alexander the Great?
Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched from the Balkans to India in just 13 years, when he was king of Macedonia. His conquest started in Persia, where he battled King Darius III's ...
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The Rest of the World at the time of Classical Greece
However, both Darius and his son Xerxes came unstuck in their efforts to defeat independent Greece and thereafter their heirs were more concerned with keeping their vast empire together than ...
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How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.