Apparently indian apologists think alexander barley beat porus and almost died fighting near the Indus River. That no way eh could've beaten the larger more numerous armies of the other "indian" kingdoms. Then if by some miracle he could beat them how does he get into China? He'd have to pass large moutains and jungle and maitain supply lines through thousands of miles of rough terrain. What does 4chan think?
>>18000634If Alexander hadn’t died, he would have done the following which he actually planned on>Making Babylon the capital of his empire>Conquering Arabia (actually, just western Arabia aka the Hejaz)>Conquering Carthage>Possibly conquering Italy (and likely taking the rest of the Balkans too to connect the territories to his empire)
>>18000634Alexander would've consumed a potion that would've granted him complete immortality and superhuman durability for being able to survive in space then he'd go to Mars and become John Carter everyone knows that the technology developed in the Hellenistic kingdoms was better than anything that ever existed until the early 20th century
>>18000647But let's say he doesn't go that route. His soldiers never mutiny. So he keeps going east. What then?
>>18000655He would never conquer the entire Indian subcontinent, not because he couldnt but because it offers nothing in value to his empire. Strictly speaking not many things he wanted to conquer would give him any more value than he already had but it was well established in Greek conciousness that the east had nothing of value besides barbarity, Alexander had to justify his conquest of Persia proper as revenge for his fathers murder. Outside of personal glory there's nothing grounding Alexander or a successor to want anything east of the Indus At most you might get some Hellenic warlord leading incursions into India and establishing some stronger form of the Greco-Indian kingdom of OTL but that's it.
>>18000634>IndiaNo. India was simply too massive, too far away, and too divided. Alexander couldn't simply defeat one king and would be forced to fight through jungles, deserts, and plains for decades to defeat them all even if he crushed every army effortlessly.>ChinaLMAO! China may not have been much of a state but it was simply too far away. Maybe if Alexander lived to 60 and had a hypothetical second son and just said "Here's an army, go conquer east if you want your own empire" than we could have a Greco-Chinese country at some point, but it was too vast a distance to be managed as a single empire. Even the Mongols didn't really rule China and Persia at the same time with the Yuan Dynasty and Ilkhanate being more akin to dynasts who pretended to be the same empire than a real singular empire. Bourbon France and Spain and Hapsburg Austria and Spain have a better claim to being a single nation than the Yuan and Ilkhanate.I'd say Alexander's conquests were about at their limits hence the poetic quote about "Alexander wept." Maybe he could have gone west and united the Greeks of Italia and conquered Rome and Samnium, as well as the Umbrians, Estruscans, and Italian Gauls, or conquered Carthage and North Africa, but at a certain point you have to just install client kings with only nominal loyalty to you rather than truly ruling over a region. Also from a human factor consider that Alexander's soldiers by the time they reached India had been away from home for about 20 years, were fabulously rich, but had nothing to do with the wealth while their king pushed them to marry foreigners. It would be like if your company made you work in Zimbabwe for 20 years for $10 million a year and would kill you for quitting and then demanded you marry some girl from Zimbabwe and settle down in Zimbabwe instead of going home after that 20 years when you couldn't meaningfully spend your wealth.
>>18000634Maybe not due East or South due to terrain, but he may have been able to go up into Bactria/Oxus, build some cities to use as a staging ground to go into China, but he would be absurdly outnumbered and not have anything to offer in trade. Greeks were infantrymen at heart, so heading north into the Steppe to become Scythian LARPers would've have worked either. He should've rested in Persepolis, rather than razing it, then conquer 100% of the Med and then jump over the Alps to see if he could handle fighting White Men.
>>18000634>That no way eh could've beaten the larger more numerous armies of the other "indian" kingdoms.Menander I Soter managed it with less resources. Alexander could have too had he been willing to rest and rule for a few years.
>>18000634Are pajeets really claiming to have stopped Alexander the Great? Lmao
>>18000665Did he ever try to establish maritime trade with India? It seems like the only practical reason to send an army there.How's this for an aincient conspiracy.Aristotle hated Greece so he brainwashed Alexander into thinking there was some magical women in India that had one hundred babies at once and he could go there and procreate himself a world conquering clone army.Meanwhile he made a deal with the Roman's that they would take over after Alexander wasted the Greek youth away in the east.
