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notably the battles of Issus and Gaugamela. He subsequently overthrew the
Persian King Darius III and conquered the entirety of the Persian Empire. At
that point, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indus River.
Seeking to reach the "ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea", he
invaded India in 326BC, but was eventually forced to turn back at the
demand of his troops. Alexander died in Babylon in 323BC, the city he
planned to establish as his capital, without executing a series of planned
campaigns that would have begun with an invasion of Arabia. In the years
following his death, a series of civil wars tore his empire apart, resulting in
several states ruled by the Diadochi, Alexander's surviving generals and
heirs.
Alexander's legacy includes the cultural diffusion his conquests
engendered. He founded some twenty cities that bore his name, most notably
Alexandria in Egypt. Alexander's settlement of Greek colonists and the
resulting spread of Greek culture in the east resulted in a new Hellenistic
civilization, aspects of which were still evident in the traditions of the
Byzantine Empire in the mid-15th century. Alexander became legendary as a
classical hero in the mold of Achilles, and he features prominently in the
history and myth of Greek and non-Greek cultures. He became the measure
against which military leaders compared themselves, and military academies
throughout the world still teach his tactics.
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