How did Alexander the Great do it?
>>18408120On horseback with a sword, plus an army of Greeks
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>>18408120With an army and spears
>>18408120Kicking the shit out of any persians trying to stop him
>>18408127Oooh. I like that answer
he defeated the Persian king in a series of battles that took place in the circled areas, after which the shah went into hiding, got assassinated, and then Alexander either defeated or negotiated the surrender of all the Achaemenid governors individually in the chaos
>>18408120Zeus blessed him.
>>18408120Power of friendship
>>18408120The Greeks conquered Persia. The Romans sacked the capital of Persia 5 times. The Arabs conquered Persia. The Turks conquered Persia. The Mongols conquered Persia. The British conquered Persia.
>>18408232All of those are land wars are you saying we should invade Iran
>>18408260if we want to make persia the 51st state, yeah
>>18408266Will it be red or blue?
>>18408120>>18408170Alexander still had to march on Persepolis in the Zagros mountains and was ambushed at the Battle of the Persian Gate. After Gaugamela Darius lacked the resources, both political and material, to raise an army large enough to challenge the Macedonians, so the Persian army was far smaller, a few 1000.What if Darius had allowed Alexander to take Mesopotamia and prepared to fight a guerrilla war in the Zagros mountains? Alexander would know Darius's main army was intact and would simply consolidate his gains in Mesopotamia and prepare for a campaign in the mountains, perhaps next year. In the meantime Darius would lose an enormous amount of territory and yet more satraps and tribes would flock to Alexander.
>>18408260I don't support this Jewish war, no.
>>18408296Are you saying you don't support Israel's right to exist?
>>18408120>How did Alexander the Great do it?He wasn't white
>>18408298That's not what I said, but that too. I could only conditionally accept a Jewish state if it was located in Madagascar/somewhere-remote and all Jews in the world were relocated there.
>>18408120It's not that hard to conquer Iran — the Mongols, Turks, and Parthians have done it before
>>18408304>That's not what I said,in order for Israel to exist where it presently is, it has to destroy Iran, so not supporting the war on Iran implied that you do not support Israel's right to exist
>>18408135This, it's not that he had to climb every mountain and hunt everyone
>>18408304The world would run completely out of problems if Israel were relocated and all the genocidal zionist terrorists were got on board with it.Yes, the levant would still have semitic-descendant tribes squabbling, but nobody would care.Actually, let's just get rid of zionism.
Vast quantities of opium and alcohol unironically.
>>18408260>>18408232Romans never conquered or ruled Iran. The Roman emperor was taken prisoner by the Persians, and the Roman Empire fragmented and fell because of its wars with Iran.All the others who conquered Iran settled and assimilated into the culture. That's the only way to rule Iran or Afghanistan.>>18408309Parthians are Iranians. Muslim Arabs and Turks settled in Iran and adopted Iranian culture. Persian-speaking Muslims became the vanguard for Islam and compiled most of the corpus.
>>18408266I mean the Iranians would love it. They hate their govt & being American would be a major upgrade.Would be disastrous for USA tho
>>18408120The mountains are exaggerated in these sort of pics. In truth it's no more difficult that trying to cross the Appalachians, not the Rockies
>>18409008I didn't say Romans conquered Persia. Just that they were able to project sufficient power so far from home to sack the "Persian capital" many times.To say Rome fell apart because of these wars is a new one for me.
>>18408120His daddy gave him a small loan of a million soldiers.
>>18408170This.Alexander won at Gaugamela, which is in present day Iraq, and after that he basically just walked in to Persepolis where the Persians made a last stand which they obviously lost.
>>18408120He did most of the hard work before he got to the mountains
>>18408120unprecedented aura
>>18408124>On horsebackThis was going to be my answer, you thought-stealing fuck.
what the fuck is this mapIran isn't that mountainous, and the hill country that covers most of its area extends far outside its bordersthis makes it look like fucking mordor
>>18409179>this makes it look like fucking mordorYes, and don't forget Mordor is two weeks away from a nuclear bomb pointed at Israel. (and your babies)
>>18408120True answer: People used to be much more willing to give up. If you beat their leader, their armies would collapse, and when their army collapsed the citizenry would follow along with whatever. There wasn't a thousand interested outside parties funneling money and mass media disseminating information. In the ancient world, your standards were low and you didn't fight unless you were a solider by profession or your children were starving.
>>18409179>what the fuck is this mapIt's a propaganda map made by irgc shills to make people think Iran is impregnable lol.
>>18408283If you're going to make an artwork like this at least ensure that the torch bearer retains his original gender ffs...
