Western Civilization I / Unit 5 WC1 0409 short lesson, about 20 seconds
India, the Refusal, the Makran, and Babylon, 323
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The idea
Alexander crossed Afghanistan and beat Porus in the Indus valley about three twenty-six, at the Hydaspes on the witness. At the next river the army refused. The march back through the Makran desert cost more lives than India. He died in Babylon in three twenty-three.
In practice
Exhaustion, wounds, drinking; the empire to the strongest.
Where people slip
The anchor dates Porus three twenty-seven. Say about.
Your place on the trail
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