Ancient Afghanistan: The Land of a Thousand Cities
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Afghanistan - A Very Interesting Story
Alexander, after a number of generations of greek stroke macedonian conflict, alexander, through his father philip, really gets the upper hand. So he basic is there to go and deliver a crushing blow to the then persian emperor, which is darius the third. And it's a rather pitiful end to darius, who runs from the deciding battle. Alexander sacks persepolus, and then darius flees and is killed by his own men. Alexander is impassioned darius. You know, he feelst you know, there's an aspect, perhaps, of seeing things in darius that he didn't find in his
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