In 334 BC, during the battle of the Granicus River, Alexander almost got killed. While his companions were engaging the Persian cavalry on the right bank, he got into an intense cavalry fight with some of the nobles and satraps, and was stunned by an axe-blow by Rhoesaces, the satrap of Ionia and Lydia. A second Persian noble, Spithridates, attempted to strike a killing blow, but his arm was cut off by Cleitus the Black, one of Alexander's companions, just a second before. Say Cleitus was a little slower, and Alexander ends up dead. Do the Macedonians still win? What happens to the Achaemenids? Will Macedon collapse? Will they eventually try again?