Alexander's campaigns fuse East and West
In a decade Alexander carried Macedonian arms from Greece to the Indus; the Hellenistic kingdoms that followed mixed Greek, Persian, Egyptian and Indian worlds.
Why it matters
The conquests created a connected intellectual space from the Mediterranean to Central Asia — the medium through which Greek science met Babylonian astronomy and, later, Indian and Islamic learning.
People
Alexander the Great
Related events
Sources
- Encyclopædia Britannica — Alexander the Great