The Persia of Alexander the Great

In three 34 b c, alexander led a united army of 35 thousand greeks across the dardanel straits and into asia minor. In their first encounter with the enemy, at the battle of the granicus, the greeks routed the persians. Alexander's generals could only admire his boldness. He seemed poised to conquer persia, fulfilling his mother's prophecy in record time. But instead he zigzagged east and then south again, through phoenicia and into egypt,. There, the egyptians hated their persian rulers and welcomed alexander as their liberator.