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What is the most amount of land one man (or woman, though less likely for obvious reasons) could conquer in their lifetime? Some great conquerors that come to mind are Alexander, who started but also died young, and Genghis Khan, who was already past his prime when he founded his empire...

What if Alexander had been the longest verified living man, passing in 240 BC at the young age of 116? With an extra 80 years, could his empire survive as long as him? Could he continue his conquests, and if so how far could he push Macedon's borders? The oldest continuously serving...

Hello all, I know the title is a little unclear, so let me explain. I've been thinking about Alexander the Great -- and more specifically, Alexander's role in myth, legend, religion, and literature. Alexander the Great is very rare. Not only is he identified as an important historical figure...

So, as it says on the tin, what if Alexander loses the Siege of Tyre. Let's say the cyprians don't help him out and then in a battle the defenders are able to beat the Macedonian navy, and then they offer a truce with Alexander, which he eventually accepts. Now, Tyre wasn't just a city, it was a...

Please answer the follow up questions and like and share Alexander doesn't die and lives to 80s like Ptolemy He conquers Arabia He conquers North India Chandragupta Maurya doesn't rise since he created his first army from power vacuum created by death of Alexander in his indian provinces Nanda...

After the defeat at Gaugamela, Darius III, having suffered a large defeat, had only a limited set of options, which including fleeing eastward, towards the core of the empire, to raise another army. It was clear that the military might of the Achaemenids had been completely shattered, and areas...

Suppose that Bessus, along with his fellow conspirators, instead of tying up Darius III in a cart and wounding him with a spear, leaving him to die on the road, decide to tie him down and kill him inside an army camp, fearing their fate if Alexander learns about their heinous deed. Bessus...

While Alexander did have legal heirs IOTL, they were essentially puppets with no real power, especially Philip Arrhidaeus, mentally disabled and with the thinking capacities of a child, while Alexander IV was posthumously born. There was an illegitimate son born by Barsine named Heracles, but he...

The POD is that Alexander lives longer, but only for long enough to conquer Arabia and to conquer Carthage, as well as impose some status of vassalage or tributary status on the Greek cities of Magna Graecia, and to keep the Italian tribes quiet, but that he suffers a fatal wound that kills him...

The Battle of Gaugamela in many ways sealed the fate of Achaemenid rule in the western part of the empire and Mesopotamia, there was still a slim chance of survival. Alexander was approaching Parsa(Persepolis) itself, and the homeland of the Achaemenids. There wouldn't be the kind of submission...

For those who don't know, Alexander of Lynkestis was a native and prince of the Upper Macedonian district of Lynkestis, whom Philip II had subjugated and dealt with early in his reign as part of his consolidation and to save Macedon from immediate danger, and his two brothers, Arrhabaeus and...

In 330 BC, there was a plot against Alexander's life lead by Dimnos, a Macedonian of Chalastra, for reasons somewhat obscure, but what Diodorus says was because Dimnos, "found fault" in something Alexander did. Either way, it isn't relevant, because the conspirators will be torn to pieces once...

A brief overview of how North Indian military worked from the ancient to early medieval period. I feel like this is important before I talk about the WI scenario: There were 4 main units: elephants, charioteers, cavalry, and infantry. The infantry consisted of very well equipped bowmen with...

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...

Greetings all, for this thread I'll be asking about the enormous effects of a nonhellenized Judaism. To make things easy the POD is simply no Alexandrian conquests of the Persian empire. Any later or alternative Greek conquests are nowhere near as lucky, and just make it across Anatolia. That...

Horus Triumphant - an Alternate Antiquity timeline - Over the years I've had several ideas for some timelines but never really had the time to do...

Technically it's not "Pyrrhic" because Pyrrhus isn't even born yet and will probably be butterflied away with this POD, but what would be the implications if Alexander the Great still won at Gaugamela, but instead of having his army relatively intact, he suffers heavy casualties due to the left...

What do you think would have happened if Alexander , king of Macedonia, hadn't died during the siege of Thebes during the second year of the 111th Olympiad? Do you think that he would have really attacked the Persian Empire if he had survived?

Was it ever possible for the diadochi kingdom of Makedonia to at least recover Greece and Anatolia? Would it be able to compete with Rome and Carthage while fending off Egypt and Persia?

What if when the Persian satraps of Lydia met to discuss battle strategy. Instead of going with there battle strategy of meeting Alexander head on. They listen to Memen of Rhodes and instead used a. scorch earth tactic burning all the land will they retreat in the interior. In otl they didn't do...