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How many years did Alexander the Great create the largest power of the Ancient World?

The aggressive campaigns of Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) began on the eve of the spring of 334 BC, when, with the goal of only destroying the Persian army, he crossed the Hellespont (modern Dardanelles) with 30 thousand foot and 5 thousand horse soldiers and invaded Asia Minor.

In May of the same year, Alexander's army utterly defeated the Persian army in the battle of the Granik River. In the autumn of 333, the Persian king Darius III tried to defeat the Greek-Macedonian troops near the city of Issus, but, despite the triple superiority of his forces, he was defeated and fled, after which Alexander captured all the ports on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. In the winter of 332-331, the army of Alexander the Great occupied Egypt, whose priests officially recognized the Macedonian king as the son of the god Amun and the pharaoh of Egypt.

From Egypt, Alexander went to Mesopotamia, where on October 1, 331, near the village of Gaugamela, he inflicted a decisive defeat on the Persian troops. Darius III fled again and was soon killed by one of his satraps. Alexander the Great occupied the capitals of the Persian kings Babylon, Susa, Persepolis and Ecbatana and became the head of a huge Greek-Macedonian-Persian state. Continuing his campaign to the East, in 330 he occupied the central part of the Iranian plateau, and in 329 he invaded Central Asia. In the spring of 327, Alexander undertook a campaign in the western part of India (Punjab). On the Hydaspe River (a tributary of the Indus), he hardly defeated the army of the Indian king Por (the army included 200 war elephants, which the Macedonians met for the first time) and captured him.

Alexander intended to continue his campaign in the valley of the Ganges River, but he met with open resistance from his army, tired from campaigns and exhausted by illness. On the Hyphasis River (an eastern tributary of the Indus), in 326 he was forced to order a return.

Alexander made Babylon the capital of his state, where he died in the midst of preparations for new campaigns. After the end of the military campaign, his possessions stretched from the Danube, the Adriatic, Egypt and the Caucasus to the Indus. It took Alexander the Great less than 9 years to create this largest power of the Ancient World.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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