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>The Susa weddings was a mass wedding arranged by Alexander of Macedon in 324 BC in the Persian city of Susa.[1]
>Alexander intended to symbolically unite the Persian and Macedonian cultures, by taking a Persian wife himself and celebrating a mass wedding with Persian ceremony along with his officers, for whom he arranged marriages with noble Persian wives.[2] The union was not only symbolic, as the new offspring were to be the children of both civilizations.
>What the Macedonians thought of these marriages is evident from the fact that the nobles all divorced their wives after Alexander's death, except Hephaestion, who died before Alexander, and Seleucus. So in spite of Alexander's precedent, the Macedonians were no more inclined to share equally with the Persians than before.
ALEXANDER BTFO
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>>1705069
>Refuse to marry into local elites.
>Asian successors: OMG WHY IS MY EMPIRE CRUMBLING.
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Reminder that Seleucus was the best diadochi.
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wtf I hate the diadochi now
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>>1705089
DIADOCHI BTFO, ALEXANDER VINDICATED
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Diadochi were a bunch of hacks, really.
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>>1705102
Ptolomy was aight
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>>1705124
>ptolemy was aight
He was good at stealing other peoples land.
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>Be Seleucids
>[province secedes]
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>>1705069
>tfw the mongols heard about alexander conquering the world on his horse they thought he sounded so awesome they started drawing their own fanart of him a thousand years later
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>>1705197
mongols were yaoi-fags
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