Practice question · Put in order
Order Alexander's trajectory, and its aftermath.
- Alexander crosses the Hellespont with ~40,000 men
- Gaugamela: the Persian empire’s field army is destroyed
- Ipsus: the successors’ wars settle into separate kingdoms
- Alexander dies in Babylon at thirty-two
- The army mutinies at the Hyphasis and refuses to march further east
- Philip crushes the poleis at Chaeronea; Macedon rules Greece
Hints
- Greek independence ends before the Asian campaign begins.
- The army's refusal, not defeat, ends the eastward advance.
Show the answer
- Philip crushes the poleis at Chaeronea; Macedon rules Greece
- Alexander crosses the Hellespont with ~40,000 men
- Gaugamela: the Persian empire’s field army is destroyed
- The army mutinies at the Hyphasis and refuses to march further east
- Alexander dies in Babylon at thirty-two
- Ipsus: the successors’ wars settle into separate kingdoms
Why
Note who ends Greek liberty: not Persia but Macedon, at Chaeronea, before Alexander ever crosses to Asia. And note who stops Alexander: not an enemy army but his own exhausted men at a river in Punjab.
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