Wars of Alexander the Great, Indian Campaign (3)

Asia in 323 BC, the Nanda Empire and Gangaridai Empire of Ancient India in relation to Alexander s Empire and neighbors
Asia in 323 BC, the Nanda Empire and Gangaridai Empire of Ancient India in relation to Alexander s Empire and neighbors

Alexander spoke to his army and tried to persuade them to march further into India but Coenus pleaded with him to change his opinion and return, the men, he said, “longed to again see their parents, their wives and children, their homeland”. Alexander, seeing the unwillingness of his men agreed and diverted. Along the way his army conquered the Malli clans (in modern-day Multan). In the territory of the Indus, he nominated his officer Peithon as a satrap, a position he would hold for the next ten years until 316 BC, and in the Punjab he left Eudemus in charge of the army, at the side of the satrap Porus and Taxiles. Eudemus became ruler of a part of the Punjab after their death. Both rulers returned to the West in 316 BC with their armies. In 321 BC, Chandragupta Maurya founded the Maurya Empire in India and overthrew the Greek satraps.

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Asia in 323 BC, the Nanda Empire and Gangaridai Empire of Ancient India in relation to Alexander s Empire and neighbors
Asia in 323 BC, the Nanda Empire and Gangaridai Empire of Ancient India in relation to Alexander s Empire and neighbors