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What chain of events do you think need to transpire for a Hellenistic India to happen? Here's my thinking:

1. King Philip II of Macedon is not assassinated, and having made public claims that the Persians (having known of his ambitions) were behind the attempt, he embarks with his son Alexander and his generals on his long-planned invasion of the declining Achaemenid Persian Empire in 335 BC.

2. Having conquered all the entire western provinces of the empire from Anatolia to Egypt to Mesopotamia, as well as killing Darius III in a final great battle that saw the virtual destruction of the Persian army, Philip pauses in Babylon to consolidate his gains in 330 BC, but not before seizing the treasuries of the fallen realm in Susa and Persepolis, and bringing them back to Babylon.

3. After reinforcing and resupplying his army, as well as releasing many of his veterans to their families, and organizing the administration of the newly conquered territories and making them part of his new Greco-Macedonian Empire, Philip once more turns his attentions eastward. Drawing up plans for the conquest of all the eastern territories of the former Persian Empire right to the Indus, he is assassinated by one of his bodyguards before having a chance to put his plans into action. Alexander succeeds him as the next King of Macedon, Greece, Egypt, and Asia. The year is 328 BC.
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