What was his endgame, /his/? Ruling over the whole world or

He probably wanted to rule the entire world, too bad he couldn't beat Indian Elephants

>>2200429
Alexander was 23 years old when he conquered Persia.

Most 23 year olds don't have an end goal besides "fuck bitches make money". They just assume that they'll be young forever until life bites them hard enough in the ass

When Alexander found out that this was the case, he drank himself to death.

>>2200441
I've read that even if he could beat Indians, the Chinese would have basically BTFO him due to their more advanced technology (crossbows) and differents tactics. Not sure if I 100% agree with this

He wanted to rule the entire world, but he died too early for that

boipucci, like all Greeks.

lmao plebs Alexander didn't want to rule shit. He wanted to fight, the war was his entire reason to live. Fight & Win.

Source: A historic fiction book i read

>>2200480
>Source: A historic fiction book i read
sounds legit

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>>2200429
Ruling was a means to an end, he wanted to spread the hellenic civilization and create a prosperous world where cultures wouldn't be destroyed no matter how foreign, but preserved in order to mix together and share ideas and shit. The main reason this didn't work out was because no one but him wanted that feelsbadman.
1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMb77933O40

2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK4s2Fjefn8

>>2200451
>china
>winning a war
They would have bent over for the BMC and accepted the new Macedonian dynasty.

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>>2201128
Fuck off Alexander, no one here believes your shit.

>>2201128
>he wanted to spread the hellenic civilization
>create a prosperous world where cultures wouldn't be destroyed no matter how foreign, but preserved in order to mix together and share ideas and shit.

He definetly wanted to preserved cultures, he was pretty much an Asianaboo. But what do you means by spreading Hellenic Civilization while preserving cultures?

>>2201160
While the 'barbarians' preserved their culture mostly through folklore, the hellenic civilization provided more means of doing so, such as writing and the raising of badass monuments.

How did he make all those Greeks walk through the searing desert and fight wars for him?

>>2201179
His dad conquered them

>>2200429
Be fucked by his bf.

>>2201141
Oh look its that guy from the "chinks can't make war" thread from yesterday

>>2200429
I think he wanted to reach the end of the world and emulate the and emulate the likes of dionysus and heracles. He liked asian culture but it wasnt a purpose. His empire was secondary to the fact macedon was bankrupt and needed $

>>2201377
delet this they were no homo

China

>>2200441
He defeated every Indian army he faced.

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>>2200451
The Macedonians had crossbows too, not to mention a military first mentality that produced an overly powerful military for the size of their nation.

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>>2200429
Ruler of the Old World. Had Alexander not died, our 'Roman Empire' would have been the Hellenistic Empire, and at its peak it would've extended from Italy to China, and also include Arabia.

Also if Alexander never existed there would've been no Roman Empire in the first place. He was the example to which Rome got its inspiration and conqueror values, and all the generals such as Julius looked up to him.

t.macedonboo

>>2202357
His solders wouldn't even go past the Hyphasis. How the fuck do you expect to get his army all the way to China? Through what route? The Himalayas? The Tarim Basin? Across the Bengal delta?

All of those routes would attrition Alexander's army hard even disregarding local resistance. Even a modern army would have difficulty making such a march... much less one from 325 BC.

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>>2200451
>china
>beating the finest army the world had ever seen
>beating the general who ploughed through Persia on a single campaign

It's more a question if whether the troops would go so far, than whether the chinks would be able to stop him. China was nothing compared to Persia.

also i will kindly attribute this reply >>2202373 as i needed to remove my post to add who i was replying to

>>2202319
We would literally be colonizing Mars by now.

Combine world spanning empire with conquest.

>>2202319
It's actually an interesting thought on whether Rome would've become the conquerors they would've if not for Alexander. I read that the young Julius was once disappointed with himself after reading about what Alexander had already done when he was the same age as him.

>>2202286
Here's what I was talking about
>[The crossbow] would shoot heavy arrows who would have destroyed in one hit Greek or Macedonians shields
>At the time, Chinese possesed weapons, tactics and defenses that would have caused much more trouble to Alexander than what the Greeks, Persians or Indians had
Samuel B. Griffith-Traduction of the Art of War

Does that statement holds at least a little bit of thruth in it?

>>2202397
Conn Igguldens historical fiction series about Julias Ceasar mentions this. 32yo if I recall, and he was sitting around in Spain wishing for glory.

>>2202488
Gives hope to us NEETs

>>2200429

He didn't really care he was just rollin with his dawgs.

Wonder how alexander would have done on game of thrones

>>2203013
He was pretty shit at intrigue but was extremely charismatic, he could convince his solders to stand against dragons.

>>2201128
barbarian apologist pls go.

macedon not greek.

alexander not greek

>>2204108
>>2203969

>>2202378
>Expecting even Alexander to succeed in overcoming military juggernauts like the Qin

>>2204108
He was.

>>2204138
Alexander was Macedonian through and through, even today the Macedonian people keep his legacy
You know he is Alexander of MACEDON, not Alexander of Greece

Alexander = Macedonian
Greeks = always liars

>>2204133
>If Barbarians conquer Greece, they become Greek
Alexander wasn't a Slav, but sure as Hell he were not born a Greek.

>>2204157
Ancient macedonia is in modern greece, they spoke greek and had greek customs and mingled with greeks. Heck phillips warfare is greek and inspired by greeks.

>>2204183
>Ancient macedonia is in modern greece
WRONG, it's in Macedonia. See the names there? See how they're exactly the same? Now why might that be. Heres a hint, because theyre the same country.
>they spoke greek and had greek customs and mingled with greeks
WRONG again, the Macedonian language still exists to this day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_language
and it isn't Greek.
>phillips warfare is greek and inspired by greeks
If Phillip's warfare was Greek, then how did he beat all the Greeks?
Maybe because it wasn't.

>>2204183
Phillips warfare wasn't Greek.
He was the first to use the eight foot spear phalanx.The Greeks knew nothing of such a devastating thing.

>>2204203
That language didnt exist in alexanders time and the ancient macedonian capital pella is in greece

>>2204210
Phillip used to live in thebes and directly took tactics from epaminondas. Macedonian phalanx just variation on hoplite phalanx.

>>2204211
As usual, no proof ever posted by Greeks
Keep dreaming.

>>2204203
>WRONG again, the Macedonian language still exists to this day:

From your own link

>Macedonian dialects form a continuum with Bulgarian dialects; they in turn form a broader continuum with Serbo-Croatian through the transitional Torlakian dialects.

Who would have guessed that Alexander the Great was speaking Bulgarian 600 years before the Bulgars migrated there.

>>2204221
Its well documented history.

>>2204226
>>2204226
Ancient macedonian isnt in those language groups

>>2204226
Just because 2 languages share geographical name doesnt make them the same

>>2204226
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Macedonian_language

Now btfo bitchboy

>>2204203
>semantics semantics
Your arguments are high school tier and you seem misinformed and butthurt.
The Macedonian kingdom spanned an area that is both in Macedonia AND Greece. The word Macedonia and the name Alexander are Greek as well and have etymological roots in the Greek language. The modern macedonian language is a south slavic language and has no relation whatsoever with Ancient Macedonian.
Also the macedonian capital was in Pella, Greece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Macedonian_language

tl:dr All modern Macedonia has in common with ancient Macedon is the ground they have existed on.

>>2204236
>Ancient macedonian isnt in those language groups

Well why link the modern language then, but just in case you are another poster

>The surviving public and private inscriptions found in Macedonia indicate that there was no other written language in ancient Macedonia but Ancient Greek,[5][6] and the recent epigraphic discoveries in the Greek region of Macedonia, such as the Pella curse tablet, suggest that ancient Macedonian was a variety of the North Western Ancient Greek dialects.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Macedonian_language

>>2204241
See
>>2204244

All you are doing is BTFOing yourself

>>2204226
1. Bulgarian is not Macedonian, they just have similarities because they took our words and grammar when they came. Bulgar was a Turkic language, totally different from what they speak today.
2. Bulgars migrated, but Macedonians were always autochthonous.

>>2204244
>Posts a link that says Ancient Macedonian belonged to the Hellenic language family
GJ

Slavs like Macedonians, Belarusians and others are really the worst we wuzers, on par with niggers.

>>2204249
>1. Bulgarian is not Macedonian,
Yep and Quebec French is a seperate language to French.

>2. Bulgars migrated, but Macedonians were always autochthonous.

Modern Macedonians have no connection, to the people of Alexanders time any more that the Germans did to the Prussian people in the Baltic

>>2202319

It does sort of feel like Alexander died due to soem time line altering fuckery.

>>2204249
>Slavs
>autochthonous

>>2204257
>Macedonians
>Slavs
Macedonians are not Slavs, we have nothing in common with Russian or Belarussian. We are here since 1000 BC.

>>2204253
The point was showing that modern "macedonian" has no connection to the ancient Macedonian but is instead related to greek as is the non WE WUZ understanding.

>>2204247
Was just some confusion in who was posting what to who

>>2204274
no worries

>>2204269
My bad, thought you were macedoniabro here trying to be alexanders n' shiiiet

>>2204268
You speak a Slavic language you are Slavs.

>We are here since 1000 BC.

Yeah and Hitler was black. Slavs come into history only in 6th century, that when they're first mentioned and those "Sklavines" participated in assaults against Byzantine Empire under Bulgar leadership in 680's. There's no evidence for Slavs earlier before other than few archaeological cultures in modern day Ukraine. Jesus Christ you larping Bulgarians are literally brain damaged.

>>2204268
>Macedonians are not Slavs, we have nothing in common with Russian or Belarussian. We are here since 1000 BC.

Not if you have anything to do with mordern macedonian people

>>2204262
>any more that the Germans did to the Prussian people

I hope u mean the baltic tribes

unless
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>2204283
There is only one macedonian people.

>>2204280
Still keep blabbing on about Slavs this and Slavs that, but word Macedonian is thousands of years older than the first mention of the Slavs. So that alone proves we are not Slavs.

>>2204268
Sorry bro. Now the alexander thing has been debunked looks like you have no interesting history

>>2204249
"Macedonia's history dates back to antiquity, beginning with the kingdom of Paeonia, a Thracian polity. In the late sixth century BCE the area was incorporated into the Persian Achaemenid Empire, then annexed by the Greek kingdom of Macedon in the fourth century BCE. The Romans conquered the region in the second century BCE and made it part of the much larger province of Macedonia. Macedonia remained part of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire, and was often raided and settled by Slavic peoples beginning in the sixth century CE. Following centuries of contention between the Bulgarian and Byzantine empires, it gradually came under Ottoman dominion from the 14th century."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)

I know you won't read them because you are Alex Jones' deep in your conspiratorial denial of facts as "lies"

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>>2204277
Yeah I know that annoyance, Euros tend to be mildy WE WUZ when it comes to the Greeks and particularly the Romans but macedonian slavs take it to whole new levels.

I mean they litterally spent 7.5 million euros on a statue of "A warrior in a Horse" even their government cringes when it comes to the Alexander issue

>>2200441
He lost in India because of sickness and tired men not the enemy.

>>2200451

The Chinese are masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Alexander would have rolled through them like a knife through butter. Im unsure how mass sieges would have gone and Im unsure if he could hold the country indefinitely but in terms of battle he'd crush them.

>>2204301
Think would be logistically impossible though

kek
retarded FYRoMians aren't even in actual Macedonia
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Map_of_the_Paeonian_Tribes_%28English%29.svg/1280px-Map_of_the_Paeonian_Tribes_%28English%29.svg.png
Look at where Macedon is and where Paeonia is

>>2204293
>So that alone proves we are not Slavs.

That proves fucking nothing, you just merely adopted name of geographic region and people who used to live there in ancient times, modern Macedonians have no direct connection Ancient Macedonians. Imagine Mongols overtook let's say Kievan Rus and then started calling themselves Rus, even though they're not originally from there or even speak the same language, would that make them Rus? Is your Slavic ape brain unable to comprehend this?

Also you are Slav retard. Your language is Slavic gypsy retard.

>>2204292
>I hope u mean the baltic tribes
Thats exactly what I mean, Macedonia is the slavic equivalent to that

>>2204293
>There is only one macedonian people.
Yeah a bunch of upity Slav/bulgars who wanted to feel special so they latched on to an identity from the land they stole when the Ottoman empire was breaking up.

You have no cultural, linguistic or genetic continuation from the people of Alexanders time

>>2204293
Words are fucking old. Doesnt mean shit.

>>2204309
Then its okay because baltic prus were baltic not german ,the Prussian Kingdom ,or the teutonic order were deeply german

>>2204310
Etymology does though

From Ancient Greek Μαkεδονία (Makedonía, “Macedonia”), from μαkεδονία (makedonía, “highland”), from μαkεδνός (makednós, “high, tall”).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Macedonia#Etymology

>>2204293
I guess then that Sultanate of Rum in Anatolia was legitimate claimant to Roman Empire, as it was named after Rome.

>>2204295
""""""debunked""""""
entire "debunk" is just Greek faggots yelling that they're really Macedonians, and please believe them. But there are already living Macedonians, and they are not Greek! So they are just full of bullshit.

>>2204296
Of course Greek liars put whatever they want in Wikipedia, they have more people so they just change everything back to bullshit whenever someone puts in the truth.

>>2204313
>Then its okay because baltic prus were baltic not german ,the Prussian Kingdom ,or the teutonic order were deeply german

Thats why its such a good comparison to this Macedonian madness

>>2204320
You are hopeless

>>2204211
>>2204226
>>2204242
Are you guys retarded? He's an obvious troll.

>>2204320
I'm not even Greek, but I just came here to laugh at you.

>>2204314
Again all your sources are Wikis, of course

But what makes more sense: that word Macedonian is Greek, or that it is MACEDONIAN?
We both already know the answer.

>>2204314
Lol i guess macedoniaboi debunked himself again

>>2204320
What proof would you need to see before you would accept that modern Macedonians are people who came in with the slavic+turkic migrations and have no continuation to the Ancient Macedonians?

>>2204322
yeah i see your point.

WE WUZING is a thing not only nig.....african americans can do

Macedonians were Northern Dorics left behind after the Dorian invasion
Dorics were a Hellenic tribe
Checkmate Skopjan

>>2204331
Personally, looking at haplogroup maps, I am inclined to believe that modern Macedonians are a mix between ancient Macedonians and Slavs that migrated in there.

>>2204343
So a mix between Slavs and Greeks then

>>2204331
You can't find that proof because there isn't any. The proof would be if our name wasn't Macedonian.

>>2204343
That might be so. The fact remains however, that the modern country has no cultural and historical connection with ancient Macedon.

>>2204347
You are aware that while all Greeks belongs to Hellenistic group, not all people of Hellenistic group are Greeks, right?

>>2204350
It's not like Greeks has any actual cultural and historical connection to them either. After all, their national identity was due to we wuz tier decision.

>>2204354
Wrong
All people of the Hellenistic group are Greeks in one way or another

>It's not like Greeks has any actual cultural and historical connection to them either
Except for, you know, being the same people that underwent many changes over the years but still identify as the locals and the location

>>2204361
>Except for, you know, being the same people that underwent many changes over the years but still identify as the locals and the location
Just like Macedonians.

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>>2204365
But "Macedonians" aren't even in Macedonia

>>2204361
>All people of the Hellenistic group are Greeks in one way or another
Wrong.
>Hellenic constitutes a branch of the Indo-European language family. The ancient languages that might have been most closely related to it, ancient Macedonian[16] and Phrygian,[17] are not well enough documented to permit detailed comparison. Among Indo-European branches with living descendants, Greek is often argued to have the closest genetic ties with Armenian[18] (see also Graeco-Armenian) and the Indo-Iranian languages[19] (see Graeco-Aryan).[20]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic_languages

>>2200441
He did it , pajeet

>>2204387
And do Phrygians exist nowadays?
I didn't think so
So practically everyone of the Hellenic group is Greek
Get fucked Tatar

>>2204320

Those fucking Greeks on Wikipedia

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>>2204136
You're pitting the Basileus of Macedon, Hegemon of the Hellenic League, Shahanshah of Persia, Pharaoh of Egypt, and Lord of Asia against the Qin state and calling them a military 'juggernaut'. Nigger Persia alone was twice the juggernaut China was, and he overcame that with ease. It would be a logistical nightmare to take China, but nothing else. Militarily in pitched battle, they would be utterly annihilated.

>>2204392
>Look at me, I am the Greece now
Macedon language becoming extinct is not making Macedonians the same as Greeks.

>>2204409
But Ancient Macedonian was a dialect of Ancient Greek

>>2204408
>China having much bigger population than Persia
>China not being ruled by an incompetent ruler
>Alexander had mostly Macedonian army, so him conquering Egypt and Persia is irrelevant
Let's be honest, he would never stop for long enough to get his army big enough, he would bleed out before he would defeat enough Chinese, if this is even possible.

>>2204414
>China having much bigger population than Persia

Really? I've read that Persia accounted for around 40% of the world's population at that time. He not only conquered that, but now in this theoretical situation has control of that and all it's armies. And he already had to stop his Indian campaign because his troops refused to keep going, so this wouldn't be a continuation of the same campaign. He would be able to sit in Babylon and assemble a new army.

>>2202319
>>2204264
>>2202391
Don't forget Africa being circumnavigated 1500 years early (and to be conquered as part of the Hellenic masterace Empire).

>Perdiccas read Alexander's will to his troops.[51] The testament called for military expansion into the southern and western Mediterranean, monumental constructions, and the intermixing of Eastern and Western populations. It included:
>Construction of a monumental tomb for his father Philip, "to match the greatest of the pyramids of Egypt"[51]
>Erection of great temples in Delos, Delphi, Dodona, Dium, Amphipolis, and a monumental temple to Athena at Troy[51]
>Conquest of Arabia and the entire Mediterranean Basin[51]
>Circumnavigation of Africa[51]
>Development of cities and the "transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties."[148]

>>2204429
>and all it's armies
You mean the same armies he had to crush in the battles he had against them?

Also, if he would send back all of his Macedonian and Greek troops home, his tactics would have to adopt to completely different armies he would use to invade India and/or China. And that's assuming he would have armies from entirety of his empire.

>>2204410
>But Ancient Macedonian was a dialect of Ancient Greek
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenic_languages
did you even looked at this page? Greek is divided in couple of sub-groups, but Macedonian is NOT one of them.

>>2204414
>China having much bigger population than Persia

China was populated but not more populated than Persia. Persia literally holds the Guinness for the greatest % control over the world's population.

>>2204439
He could erm, train the Persians to fight in Macedonian-style phalanxes real quick?

But in all seriousness Alexander was excellent at using varieties of troops from the very start. I'm sure he could command Persian forces very well, considering he obliterated them. It would be a shame to send the Macedonian forces home though. A Macedonian-Persian force could be something to be reckoned with.

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Every fucking time a Alexander thread is posted the thread is derailed by people arguing if he was Greek or not

>>2204414
>China not being ruled by incompetence

This has never been the case.

>>2204343
Its not about genetics but cultural continuity. Theres no discrete genetic groups.

>>2204354
No but at the time ancient greeks and ancient macedonians were culturally continuous to the point alexander is consideted greek. Thats the original point.

>>2204414
This is why we say logistically. But a given battle alex armies superior

>>2204444
Ancient macedonian is there idiot. Its unknown but the weight of evidence os in greek favoue

>>2204574
>Implying modern Greeks are the same as Hellenic Greeks or like Greek city-states

>>2204580
Who considered him Greek in his times? Opinions of people who wants to claim Alexander for themselves should be irrelevant.

>>2204597
>Hellenic Group
>Greek Sub-Group
>Ancient Macedonian not part of the Greek Sub-Group
Are you, by any chance, blind?

>>2204203
American education: the post

>>2204435
>tfw no Hellinic-Hapa/Indo-European gf
Pls just end my life already

>>2204604
The original discussion didint involve modern greeks, someone just brought it in. And the original argument was that macedonians shared greek culture, spoke attic greek and had strong ties to the rest of greece etc. And that he cant be considered similar to modern macedonian because ancient macedonia is centred in what you would call greece now. Im not talking about people at the time claiming it because i dont know if there was even a big greek identity. For all i know thessalonians, laconians, ionians, atticans were all considered different. Especially considering how small their known world was

>>2204606
I wpuld be just as happy with hellenic as greek.

>>2204619
Ancient macedonians share ancient greek*

>>2204505

Its just a butthurt Fyromfag or an Albanian, ignore.

>>2201128
>>2202319

The Hellenistic era would have happened either way.

However I find doubtful if the Macedonian empire would have survived like Alexander envisioned it, even if he had lived 20 years more.

An obvious example is that as soon as he died, all the marriages at Susa between his Macedonian soldiers and the persian women were annulled.

Also even if he had a successor, the many generals would have attempted to control him, and infighting would ensue.

The Greeks were in general had cemented in their culture the "Agon", an endless struggle for sucess,independence and glory. The Romans on the other hand had no problem bending over some patrician who wanted to conquer some savages in the north for the "Glory of Rome". This is why republicanism was doomed from the start in rome, while in Greece, without Philip or Alexander it would have continued.

>>2204408
He had what, a hundred thousand man?
China must have had at least 10 million abled bodied man at that time period

>China's first known nationwide census taken in 2 AD, the population was registered as having 57,671,400 individuals
I doubt the population jumpstarted from Alexander to Jesus.

>>2204681
10 million men against a god...

>>2204691
That's Han China, covering a larger territory than any Chinese state before it.

Not to mention there was no unified Chinese state at the time of Alexander since it was smack in the middle of the Warring States period.

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Alexander...

>>2204738
So you mean the territory the Han state occupied didn't exist before, or was empty of population?

Yeah, so people also prepared for war with a standing army. The number of casualties per battle during the Warring States period is higher than the number of soldiers Alexander took in India.
I like Alexander too but there's no reason to be stupid.

>>2204759
There was 300 years of growth between Alexander and 2 a.d

So they wouldn't have had as many people. Plus the chinese were fighting amongst themselves

>>2204759
>So you mean the territory the Han state occupied didn't exist before, or was empty of population?

Empty of Chinese population? Sure. Alexander was over a century before Zhao Tuo and his conquest of the south, it's colonisation and sinisation was yet to begin.

Not to mention the population growth a period of relative peace and unity brought.

You might as well compare the populations of 4th century Italy and 1st century Roman Empire. Very different beasts.

>>2204789
*4th century BC and 1st AD obviously

>>2203013
Nigga GoT is so petty he would probably conquer that shit in a day, especially seeing some of the 'tactics' used in GoT battles. If he could survive not getting murdered in ancient Macedon and instill complete and utter authority over peoples who are usually trying to kill eachother (as they did after his death), he could do the same in GoT just as well.

His mother is more of a GoT suitable character though. She was literally part of a snake-worshipping cult and had countless people murdered to protect her son's interests.

>>2204681
>China must have had at least 10 million abled bodied man at that time period

Do you mean soldiers? If so you're wrong. Do you mean just generally able bodied men? Alexander had more, easily. He controlled the biggest share of the human population, no question. China was nothing compared to Persia. China WAS NOT superduper masschink populated back then as it is today.

>>2204789
I'm trying to find the original source, but all the studies I've come across points me a book by Zhao and Xie who estimate the 200BC population of the Warring States not lower than 20 million people.

>>2202319
This painting is so fucking nice.

>>2200429
He didn't have one.

>>2205012
How big was persia

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>Alexander didn't even manage to enter modern India
>But surely he could have beaten China 2000 miles away
Stop being autistic

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>>2205044
Not that big if you believe Colin McEvedy and Richard Jones.

>>2200429
Greeks could rule the world. Alexander did. He took a Greek army to the far Indus. There was nothing left to conquer; the world was his. But Alexander is dead. His empire is gone

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Alexander was a Serb

>>2205049
Of course he could have. The reason he couldn't conquer all of India was that his army stopped following him. Otherwise he won all the battles that opposed him versus the Indians.

His army prefered to go back to Macedonia rather than reach the end of the world like he wanted. He never lost a battle, YOU stop being autistic

>>2205083
Yeah and if his soldiers didn't have to abide bodily functions and had winged horse he could have conquered america too.

>>2205092
Wew, talking about autism

Alexander and his soldiers were perfectly capable of invading India, they just didn't want to anymore

>>2205068
>Chinese population in 1997
>21 million
>Chinese population in 1800-1850
>35 million

>Indian population 1997
>21 million

>>2205537
HINT FOR MORONS:

The numbers in each row add up to one hundred.

Figure it out.

>>2205580
Topkek

>>2204301
>The Chinese are masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Actually laughed out loud

>>2204625
Tfw your countries name is cucked by greece

>>2205937
The fyrians are cucks of the slav world

>>2202408
>destroyed in one hit

This nigga serious?

>>2204306
You are retarded af

>>2205096
>Alexander and his soldiers were perfectly capable of invading India, they just didn't want to anymore
And why do you think that is? The first few conquests of India were easy enough, it's only when push came to shove that they legged it.

>he would have colonized the stars if we followed him!
k

What good books can I read in order to learn more about Alexander, his life and conquests and so forth?

>>2208033
They were talking about abandonning him before India you know? Originaly, their plan was to invade Persia ans get back to Macedonia covered un gold, but Alexander kept on going which his soldiers didn't approve since the beggining. They decided it was enough when they went beyond the known world, they probably got worried that they were never coming back

>>2208084
Film wit volon gsrel

>>2200429
he just wanted to fuck a million men, like literally fuck

>>2202488
Loved that series, he's done one on Ghengis Khan too. It's pretty good.

>>2204330
Why is it people cannot accept alexander was macedonian not greek. We are last descendents greatest civilisation. No christianity without macedonian empire