ANTH 3030 Final: exam prep note 18 CS.doc

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What most people know" about alexander is that he wept because he had no more worlds to conquer. He did not in fact conquer the world, but it is arguable that he had ambitions to add the western mediterranean to his conquest of the persian empire and the indus valley. This tutorial examines the ancient evidence and asks you to find the most plausible solution. To answer this you need to look at a general biography of alexander. The outline treatment in the oxford classical dictionary can be supplemented by a. b. Conquest and empire: the reign of alexander the great (cambridge 1988). The comprehensive map at the beginning should be helpful. Read thoroughly the passage of arrian 7. 1-2 (passage a on the accompanying sheet), and answer the following questions. Just before alexander died, he had evolved plans for an invasion of southern arabia, launched from the persian gulf. We have two versions of his plans, both deriving from.

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