How did Alexander the Great defeat the Persians? How was the Persian Empire different from the Assyrian Empire? How did the Persian Empire thrive? Did the Persian Empire conquer Athens? What impact did the outcome of the Peloponnesian War have on Greece?
The answer seems relatively straightforward: from an early age he was an achiever, he conquered territories on a superhuman scale, he established an empire until his times unrivalled, and he died young, at the height of his power. Thus, at the youthful age of 20, in 336, he inherited the...
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The end of this lucky climate regime did not immediately, or in any simple deterministic sense, spell the doom of Rome. Rather, a less favorable climate undermined its power just when the empire was imperilled by more dangerous enemies—Germans, Persians—from without. Climate instabilitypeake...
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How did the Persian Empire manage the lands it conquered? How did the Persian Empire treat conquered peoples? How did Persian rulers unite their vast empires? How did the Delian League become the Athenian Empire? How did Alexander the Great defeat the Persians?