CLA364H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hypaspists, Chiliarch, Western Shoshone

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Heads south through aria to arachosia area next to the indus river valley. Bessus had claimed the persian throne calling himself artaxerxes so. Alexander decided to cross the hindu kush" mountains during the winter: bessus anticipated this and came up to the north face of the mountains and burnt the countryside where alex would have got his supplies. 329 bc alex crossed the khawak pass of 3500 metres when they got down things were quite tough b/c of bessus" scorched land attack. In spite of this alex kept marching bessus panicked retreated north over the oxus river he burnt his boats and was abandoned by the bactrians who had supported him. Sogdiana: alex headed north from bactria (though aristocrat rebellion had begun there) to sogdiana, alex engages here in much harsher punishments to populations who opposed his rule when compared to his treatment of the egyptians,

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