Alexander's satrap appreciation thread, your thoughts?

>Parthians
They are literally extremely closely related to the Persians and spoke an intelligible language with them.
>Medians
Basically are just more settled Persians than the Persians themselves, so its kind of justified. I mean fucking Cyrus the Great was half-Mede anyway from his mother's side.

I would describe the fall of Alexanders empire closest to the fall of the mongol empire, both were conquered in very short times and didn't have a lot of time to centralize and fell after the death of their main ruler/rulers and became several successor states

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>The "Silk Road" literally means "roads"

What the fuck even is this board

why couldn't the mongols into india?
mountains? or didn't care?

Mongols had 87 fucking years.

The Mongols specialized in open plane steppe warfare and India would have been far to hard to conquer with all of the jungles it has. Anyway lets focus Alexander the great

It would take a lot longer than 80 years to centralize and keep an empire as large as theirs under tight reigns, even the Romans who were pathetic when compared to the size of the Mongol empire and one of the most centralized empires in history couldn't keep their shit together

Mithradates x Tigranes is my favourite yaoi shipping

>It would take a lot longer than 80 years to centralize and keep an empire
No it doesn't.

Name one empire that was even close to the size of the Mongol empire and was conquered in the time it was that was able to survive
>Pro tip you cant

Alexander was nothing

True victory is a battle without casualties

A tearless moment forever remembered in the accounts of contemporary historians

Rather than a degenerate modern fuck boi who is not mentioned in any contemporary text of note

Perdiccas failing to keep the empire united is one of the greatest travesties of human history

Did Tigranes accomplish much? All I know is that battle he got btfo at against the Romans.

it does if you behead everyone

what about theTimurids?

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Well it left this behind, which is just fascinating

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhist_art

They feared the poo warrior

soviet union :^)

Is this IRL Asterix and Obelix meet Cleopatra?

wow... so seleucids were actually kangs... really makes you think

Ugly borders tbqh famalam

>those seleucid borders
what was he thinking????

>mongol empire lasted for ~70 years before breaking apart
>Soviet Union lasted for ~70 years before breaking apart
:tonking:

There's a reason it didn't last.

They tried several times.

They never got past the open plains of Punjab desu.

It lasted longer than the US has been around for. 250 years isnt a flash in the pan