World-changing336 BCE – 323 BCE · 13 years
Macedonian Conquests of Alexander the Great
Greece · Asia Minor · Persia · Egypt · India
Estimated casualties
100Ksingle estimate · no range published
Alexander's rapid military campaigns that created one of history's largest empires, spreading Hellenistic culture across three continents.
Belligerents4
- Macedon
- Persian Empire
- Egyptian sultanates
- Indian kingdoms
ON THE MAPEmpire of Alexander the GreatAchaemenid Persian Empire
Conflict graph
SUB-CONFLICTS · 12
- Battle of Thebes335 BCE
- Battle of the Granicus334 BCE
- Battle of Halicarnassus334 BCE
- Battle of Miletus334 BCE
- Battle of Gaza332 BCE
- Battle of Tyre332 BCE
- Battle of Megalopolis331 BCE
- Battle of Pandosia331 BCE
- Battle of Jaxartes329 BCE
- Battle of Aornos327 BCE
- Battle of Sogdian Rock327 BCE
- Battle of the Hydaspes326 BCE
Sources
- Wikipedia: Macedonian Conquests of Alexander the Great
- Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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