ii[›] Following his desire to reach the "ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea", he invaded India, but was eventually forced to turn back by the near-mutiny of his troops, who were tired of war. Alexander died in Babylon in 323 BC, before realizing a series of planned ...
during the reign of Alexander, however events in Macedon in this period are undocumented and largely unknown. We certainly cannot say that there was a hiatus in Macedonian history, for Antipater kept Macedon powerful and united while Alexander was absent, so much so that there was economic growth...
During his reign, Alexander the Great had a massive impact in his time and sent ripples into the future. "In a reign of 13 years Alexander shot across the Greek and Middle Eastern firmament like a meteor, transforming whatever he — often brutally — touched and ensuring the ancient world ...
•Seekingtoreachthe“endsoftheworldandtheGreatOuterSea”,heinvadedIndiain326BC,butwaseventuallyforcedtoturnbackatthedemandofhistroops.AlexanderdiedinBabylon巴比伦in323BC,withoutexecutingaseriesofplannedcampaignsthatwouldhavebegunwithaninvasionofArabia阿拉伯.Intheyearsfollowinghisdeathaseriesofcivilwarstorehisempire...
invaded Persia (Mark). After the death of Alexander’s father, he carried out his Phillip’s plans to invade Persia. Before he invaded Persia, he led his military on a series of campaigns. His military traveled from Macedon, through Greece, down to Egypt, through Persia to India; ...
Defying the ancient world's rules for women, Olympias charted her—and her son's—rise to power through wits, ambition, and might.
Nonetheless, the vast empire that stretched from the borders of India in the east to Egypt and Thrace in the west was difficult to hold together.The reign of Artaxerxes I (during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah) saw the beginning of unrest and rebellion. The mortal threat arose in the ...
(the two-horned one, apparently due to an image on coins minted during his rule that seemingly depicted him with the two ram's horns of the Egyptian god Ammon),(Alexander the Great) in Arabic, Sikandar-e-azam Sikandar, his name in Urdu and Hindi, is also a term used as a synonym ...
The Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BCE was the last battle fought by Alexander the Great during his Asian campaign. Alexander’s army defeated the forces of the Indian king Porus. Alexander’s superior tactics, including crossing a river in pouring rain t
Severus Alexander was a Roman emperor from ad 222 to 235, whose weak rule collapsed in the civil strife that engulfed the empire for the next 50 years. His maternal grandmother, Julia Maesa, was a sister-in-law of the emperor Septimius Severus (reigned 1