Antipater and Macedon

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• Antipater and Macedon
• Inside the Persian empire
• Gaugamela (331) Death of Darius
• Babylon Burning of Persepolis Thais
• Persianizing proskynesis tomb of Cyrus

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Resistance i) Bactria - Roxane ii) Founding
cities Alexandria Eschate iii) Death of Cleitus
(11.2) iv) Callisthenes
To the End of the World i) India and Revolt
(326) - Porus Hydaspes ii) Mutiny and
Return - Nearchus
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Alexanders Campaigns
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The Final Phase Babylon 324-3

• Administration of empire
• Harpalus
• Opis
• Hephaestion
• The Greeks Alexander the god
• Death of Alexander (323)
• Perdiccas

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Alexanders Aims?

• Fusion?
• Circumnavigation of Africa
• Conquest of Black Sea and Scythia
• Conquest of the west - Carthage, Sicily and Italy
  
• Temples Greece, Macedon and Troy
• Hephaestions monument
• Pyramid for Philip
• Population transfers