HISTORY 1M03 Lecture 7: Alexander_ World Conqueror
7 Jan 2018
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So he pressed down into phoenicia where, for the most part, the cities promptly surrendered. And for holding alexander up for seven months, its people were massacred or enslaved. Gaza paid the same price when its resistance slowed. Egypt, on the other hand, had always been an unwilling and rebellious subject of persia, and now welcomed alexander as a new pharaoh. Darius fled east, leaving babylon and the heart of the empire, the capitals susa and persepolis to alexander. The satraps of these great cities surrendered while the rulers of the upper satrapies assassinated darius in favour of one of their number, a satrap called bessus. With the assassination of darius, many of the persian leaders went over to alexander. Bessus headed further east to bactria (afghanistan today) and assumed the royal title of artaxerxes v. Alexander had been working out as he went along how he would govern the vast territories he was conquering.
