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... Indian wise men were famed for their knowledge of the weather , and he turned to the task in hand . This was plain ... Indian . In early May Alexander recruited 5,000 Indians and left Taxila , never to return to the Tamra - nala river ...
... Indian wise men were famed for their knowledge of the weather , and he turned to the task in hand . This was plain ... Indian . In early May Alexander recruited 5,000 Indians and left Taxila , never to return to the Tamra - nala river ...
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... India , because its king was so hated and despised , both for his character and his low birth . ' If an Indian imitator could do it , so too could his master ten years before : Dhana Nanda's kingdom could have been set against itself ...
... India , because its king was so hated and despised , both for his character and his low birth . ' If an Indian imitator could do it , so too could his master ten years before : Dhana Nanda's kingdom could have been set against itself ...
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... India's traders : Aristob . F 20 and cp . the bdellium trade Theophr . HP 9.1.2 with Plin . NH 12.35 . Indian legends : J. W. McCrindle Invasion of India by Alex . ( 1896 ) is a good source- book ; Ctesias 688 F 45 ; Nearch . F 8 , 11 ...
... India's traders : Aristob . F 20 and cp . the bdellium trade Theophr . HP 9.1.2 with Plin . NH 12.35 . Indian legends : J. W. McCrindle Invasion of India by Alex . ( 1896 ) is a good source- book ; Ctesias 688 F 45 ; Nearch . F 8 , 11 ...
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Achilles Aegean Alex Alex.'s Alexander Alexander's death Alexandria allies already Ammon Antipater Aristob Aristotle army Asia Athenian Athens Babylon Bactria battle Berve s.v. Bessus Callisthenes camp cavalry chariot Cleit coins command court Craterus Darius Darius's desert Dionysus east Egypt Egyptian elephants empire enemy exiles father favour fleet Foot Companions friends Gaugamela gods Greece Greek Greek cities Hamadan Hephaistion Heracles hero Hindu Kush historians Homeric honour horsemen horses hundred Indian Indus infantry Iran Iranian king's known land later Lyncestian Macedonian Makran mercenaries miles mountains murder native Nearchus never nomads numbers officers Olympias once ordered oriental Oxus palace Parmenion past Perdiccas perhaps Persepolis Persian king Pharaoh Philip Philotas plans probably proskynesis Ptol Ptolemy river road Roman route royal sarissas satrap sent Shield Bearers ships Siwah Sogdian story Susa temple tribes troops Tyre victory wrote Zeus