CLA364H1 Lecture Notes - Siemens Greek Bribery Scandal, Diadem, Proskynesis
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Cla364h1f hellenistic world (lecture 3) 9/16/2013 8:09:00 am. After conquering asia minor and taking egypt did alex decide to take the. Summer 331 bc: he moved out of egypt towards syria, samaria. People of samaria had killed persian satrap andromachus punishes those who did it. Replaces population of samaria with macedonians: syria. New satrap: asclepiodorus: antipiter (regent of macedon) sent a regent of new troops alex waited in n. syria for them, syria had a lot of good pastures good place to keep animal herds. July of 331 bc: alex heads east towards the euphrates river. Instead of following the road at the eurphates he goes north and follows it up stream towards a narrower region and crosses at. Thapsacus had engineers build a couple bridges pretty easy: persian opposition: mazaeus. Ptolemy (in arrian: darius had a huge army inflated reports say there were 1 million men. Wasn"t this big, but it was bigger than alex"s.
