DBWI: What if Alexander the great had not conquered India

What would have happened. I remember there being some assimilation law where he imported greeks and forced them to have like 7 children each minimum, which slowly hellenized persia and India but idk.
 

Dolan

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Alexander The Great, conqueror of the East, beloved of Apollo, is one hell of walking ASB.

First he conquered Persian Empire in record time, winning engagements after engagements despite being severely outnumbered and win against Darius' war elephants and chariots.

Then he pushed east and crushed the Magadh Empire with what, handful of Greco-Macedonian survivors while the rest of his army being Persian conscripts? Then he managed to turn ex-King Porus into being his right hand man and supply him with Indian troops and elephants to conquer the entirety of India up to Bengal, when he stopped because Aristotle told him anything more than that would made his empire too fragile.

Before returning to Persepolis, rename it Megale-Alexandria, and ruling until he died as old man at the age of 108, outliving all his sons most grandsons and wept when he used his last strength to crown his 16 years old great grandson Hephaestion I as King of Kings to make sure the succession would be honored by all.

Well the most obvious thing would be Greek language won't end up as de facto universal language on the old world.
 
I'm guessing India wouldn't use a drastically-altered form of Greek script today, and there would be less Greek influence on Indian languages - a language directly descended by the Sanskrit of the Vedas without the Greek vocabulary would be interesting.
 
Well, there wouldn't be 50 different cities named Liskandar, Sikandar, Sekender, Sekander, Alekajandara, Yalishanda, Exandros, etc. interspersed across the subcontinent. Without the vain Macedonian and his many Alexandrias, learning Indian geography would be a lot easier.
 
Alexander The Great, conqueror of the East, beloved of Apollo, is one hell of walking ASB.

First he conquered Persian Empire in record time, winning engagements after engagements despite being severely outnumbered and win against Darius' war elephants and chariots.

Then he pushed east and crushed the Magadh Empire with what, handful of Greco-Macedonian survivors while the rest of his army being Persian conscripts? Then he managed to turn ex-King Porus into being his right hand man and supply him with Indian troops and elephants to conquer the entirety of India up to Bengal, when he stopped because Aristotle told him anything more than that would made his empire too fragile.

Before returning to Persepolis, rename it Megale-Alexandria, and ruling until he died as old man at the age of 108, outliving all his sons most grandsons and wept when he used his last strength to crown his 16 years old great grandson Hephaestion I as King of Kings to make sure the succession would be honored by all.

Well the most obvious thing would be Greek language won't end up as de facto universal language on the old world.

He was smart to marry off Hephaestion to the Chinese princess Chenguang, which allowed Hephaestion to be seen as the legitimate ruler of a unified China.
 

Julio92

Banned
He was smart to marry off Hephaestion to the Chinese princess Chenguang, which allowed Hephaestion to be seen as the legitimate ruler of a unified China.
Yeah but that title merely meant his empire could treat with Cathay as an equal, no way would the Chinese elite let some Western barbarian actually rule over them.

But back to the main topic, I'd imagine the indian subcontinen south of India to be much richer than it is today where it's nickname "land where the kings are peasants" is a fair moniker.

The trade routes of the north wouldn't have the political stability to be knownas the safest roads in the world for centuries ent all the oriental trade in tea and silks and china would flow along the coast to avoid what I assume would be war torn inland routes (based on what happened in the southern part of the indian subcontinent that wasn't subjugated)
 
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Yeah but that title merely meant his empire could treat with Cathay as an equal, no way would the Chinese elite let some Western barbarian actually rule over them.

But back to the main topic, I'd imagine the indian subcontinen south of India to be much richer than it is today where it's nickname "land where the kings are peasants" is a fair moniker.

The trade routes of the north wouldn't have the political stability to be knownas the safest roads in the world for centuries ent all the oriental trade in tea and silks and china would flow along the coast to avoid what I assume would be war torn inland routes (based on what happened in the southern part of the indian subcontinent that wasn't subjugated)

What? Emperor Alexander IV famously (some say infamously) led the Chinese cavalry in the battle of Zama. This failure was what led the Chinese to desert the Empire, not their hatred of Western barbarians. That is interesting though, because Hannibal’s victory at Zama propelled his meteoric rise and the eventual Carthaginian Empire.
 

Julio92

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What? Emperor Alexander IV famously (some say infamously) led the Chinese cavalry in the battle of Zama. This failure was what led the Chinese to desert the Empire, not their hatred of Western barbarians. That is interesting though, because Hannibal’s victory at Zama propelled his meteoric rise and the eventual Carthaginian Empire.
Yes, but military command had little bearing in political command in Cathay at the time unlike the Alexandrian Empire, because unlike the Alexandrian empire, it was not built upon the bones of fresh conquest, but rather demographic expansion to the south.
 
Ooc: I love dbwis in which two people have different ideas on how it should have gone down.

What we’re forgetting is the spread of Stoic-Buddhism across the Hellenic world. Without such a unifying religion, there might be far more internecine strif e across Eurasia.
 
What would have happened. I remember there being some assimilation law where he imported greeks and forced them to have like 7 children each minimum, which slowly hellenized persia and India but idk.

Alexander the great had not conquered India? This is ridiculous ASB ahahaha. Ahhhh its always funny to read the last fanatics of the old Alexandrian traditional ATL forums. In my next visit to earth i will definitely visit their last standing temple one last time!
 
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