HIST 4031 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Battle Of Gaugamela, Satrap
10 Mar 2019
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At the battle of gaugamela, alexander finds darius waiting for him with an estimated 1-million- man army. This number is definitely false, plus alexander gained many troops along the way because his legend was becoming so profound. Troops began to see serving in alexander"s army as an honor even if they were not greek. Also, the casualty count on alexander"s side is always very low and those numbers are also likely false. After his victory at the battle of gaugamela, he is the unopposed king of asia. It is believed he had a translator named laomedon who spoke both. However, he is just one bilingual officer and there were millions of arabic people living in this empire. Darius fled for the armenian mountains to a place called media. The mountains made it hard for a large army such as alexander"s to travel through. So, alexander avoided the mountains and took over babylon and susa.
