Snake Featherston
Banned
In OTL, Clitus the Black saved Alexander the Great from a certain death at the hands of Spithridates. What if he had failed? With Macedonia without a sucessor, the empire he had built probably would have fallen. With a longer-lived Achaemenid dynasty, how would the conversion of India to Buddhism have impacted a Zoroastrian Persia? Frex, Menander the Hellenistic King according to Wiki was one of Buddhism's greatest benefactors. Would a Zoroastrian king have been so tolerant? How does the abscence of Greco-Buddhism impact Buddhist art and the emerging Mahayana sects? How, also, would history differ in India and Palestine and Egypt? Would Judaism have developed in a different way without (presumably) the Hasmoneans and a Roman conquest? Would the Roman Empire and Christianity (and therefore Islam, as well) be completely butterflied away? Or, would an increasingly powerful Roman Republic have warred upon a future descendant of the Achaemenid dynasty and thereby sparked an early version of the Byzantine-Persian wars? Would European culture itself be radically, or only moderately different without such a unifying figure? After all, Alexander the Great is arguably to the West what Shi Huangdi was to the East. How would a longer-lived Achaemenid Empire have reacted to the Chinese, if it survived that long? Also, one more thing....
When the Achaemenid empire finally falls, what replaces it?
Discuss.
When the Achaemenid empire finally falls, what replaces it?
Discuss.