Alexander's conquests spread Greek knowledge and ideas throughout the region.

While Greek astronomy — thanks to Alexander's conquests — probably influenced Indian learning, to the point of introducing trigonometry, it seems to be the case that Indian mathematics is otherwise an indigenous tradition ; in particular, there is no evidence that Euclid's Elements reached India before the 18th century.

Although the ancient Vedas of India specified how the ecliptic was to be divided into twenty-eight nakshatra, Indian constellation patterns were ultimately borrowed from Greek ones sometime after Alexander's conquests in Asia in the 4th century BC.

Fearing the prospects of facing another powerful Indian army and exhausted by years of campaigning, his army mutinies at the Hyphasis River ( the modern Beas River ) and refuses to march further east, thus making this river mark the eastern-most extent of Alexander's conquests.

The other parts of the country the Hydaspes, the farthest extent of Alexander's conquests were discovered and surveyed by Seleucus Nicator: namely

The Hellenistic period, following Alexander's conquests, continued and built upon this knowledge.

This river thus marks the easternmost extent of Alexander's conquests.

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The Beas River marks the eastern-most border of Alexander's conquests in 326 BC.

This was also a period when Greek, in the wake of Alexander's conquests, was beginning to act as a lingua franca for the Eastern Mediterranean ( replacing various Semitic languages ).

This is an indication that Alexander's conquests have opened India to imports from the west.

After Alexander's conquests, the drachma was used in many of the Hellenistic kingdoms in the Middle East, including the Ptolemaic kingdom in Alexandria.

Alexander's conquests only served to accelerate an already clear drift towards Hellenisation in Cyprus.

The picture they give of the simple and refined life of the Greek country gentleman, like Xenophon in his old age at Scillus, is one of the most charming and intimate glimpses we have of the ancient world, carried on quietly among the drums and tramplings of Alexander's conquests, of which we are faintly reminded by another epigram on an engraved Indian beryl.

These mixed troops provided added strength and flexibility throughout Alexander's conquests.

Though Alexander's empire did not outlive him, it did result in the spread of Hellenism across the Mediterranean and Middle East.

Alexander's adoption of the styles of government of the conquered territories was accompanied by the spread of Greek culture and learning through his vast empire.

The cultural dominance of the Athenian Empire and the later adoption of Attic Greek by king Philip II of Macedon ( 382-336 BC ), father of the conqueror Alexander the Great, were the two keys that ensured the eventual victory of Attic over other Greek dialects and the spread of its descendant, Koine, throughout Alexander's Hellenic empire.

According to five historians of antiquity ( Arrian, Curtius, Diodorus, Justin, and Plutarch ), Alexander visited the Oracle of Ammon at Siwa in the Libyan desert and rumors spread that the Oracle had revealed Alexander's father to be the deity Ammon, rather than Philip.

Even before Alexander's death, Zabrzeziński renewed the rivalry and spread rumors that Glinski planned to poison Alexander and even hoped to seize the throne himself.

Bosworth, in line with the epigraphic tradition of modern classical studies, points out that Arrian is a secondary source of Alexander's biographical data: " Arrian is prone to misread and misinterpret his primary sources, and the smooth flow of his narrative can obscure treacherous quicksands of error ".

After Alexander's death in 323 BCE, Chandragupta, turned his attention to Northwestern India ( modern Pakistan ), where he defeated the satrapies ( described as " prefects " in classical Western sources ) left in place by Alexander ( according to Justin ), and may have assassinated two of his governors, Nicanor and Philip.

Theophrastus is perhaps the first classical author to mention it, if the report that came back from his informant in Alexander's expedition refers to Commiphora wightii: " In the region called Aria there is a thorn tree which produces a tear of resin, resembling myrrh in appearance and odour.

Alexander's mathematical concepts and orientation were similar to Edsger Dijkstra's influential A Discipline of Programming.

Though she had taken away Alexander's sword, they feared to set about the deed until she threatened to wake him.

The island of Perim divides the strait into two channels, of which the eastern, known as the Bab Iskender ( Alexander's Strait ), is 2 miles ( 3 km ) wide and 16 fathoms ( 30 m ) deep, while the western, or Dact-el-Mayun, has a width of about 16 miles ( 25 km ) and a depth of 170 fathoms ( 310 m ).

The revolution of Plovdiv ( 18 September 1885 ), which brought about the union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria, took place with Alexander's consent, and he at once assumed the government of the province.

He has little to say about Alexander's personal life, his role in Greek politics or the reasons why the campaign against Persia was launched in the first place.

But he does not discuss Alexander's wider political views or other aspects of his life that the modern reader would like to know more about.

A conlict with Alexander of Lincoln over a church in Alexander's diocese led to further condemnation by Henry of Huntingon and prompted Henry to write that " no one can sing praises because there's nothing to sing about.

He appears never to have been a danger for Alexander's succession to Philip II, notwithstanding their being of about the same age ; all the same, when the satrap of Caria Pixodarus proposed his daughter in marriage to Philip, who offered Arrhidaeus as husband, Alexander thought it prudent to block the operation, with considerable irritation of his father ( 337 BC ).

" is a bit ambiguous, meaning either that it was Alexander's direct personal intention or that it was about to happen independently of whatever Alexander had intended.

No concise biography has ever been written about him, likely stemming from the fact that he died before Alexander and none of those among Alexander's companions who survived him would have had a need to promote someone other than themselves.

Plutarch, while writing about Alexander's correspondence, reveals an occasion when Hephaestion was away on business, and Alexander wrote to him.

This is clear from Arrian's comment about Alexander's grief:

The setting of the book is about a century after the conquest of Judea by the Greeks under Alexander the Great, after Alexander's empire has been divided so that Judea was part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.

Shimkus said " that in late-2005 he learned -- through information passed along by Alexander's office -- about an e-mail exchange in which Foley asked about the youngster's well-being after Hurricane Katrina and requested a photograph.

This paper about programming patterns was inspired by Christopher Alexander's architectural concept of " patterns ".

Alexander's army is estimated at about 6, 000.

On some accounts, Alexander's decision to put the Magi on trial was more about his attempt to undermine their influence and his show of power in his newly conquered empire, than a concern for Cyrus's tomb.

A group of officers commanding about 3, 000 men refused to swear allegiance to the new tsar, Alexander's brother Nicholas, proclaiming instead their loyalty to the idea of a Russian constitution.

It is primarily a military history ; it has little to say about Alexander's personal life, his role in Greek politics or the reasons why the campaign against Persia was launched in the first place.

Throughout his career, Oppenheimer made scores of powerful enemies, some of whom conspired to bring about his arrest and execution after Karl Alexander's death.

There has been a great deal of speculation by military historians since the late Hellenistic period about the elite units of Alexander's army.

The film has also been criticised for omitting a famous story about Alexander's conversation with King Porus.

An early expedition to Derbent was ordered by the Caliph Umar ( 586 – 644 AD ) himself, during the Arab conquest of Armenia where they heard about Alexander's Wall in Derbent from the conquered Christian Armenians.

Polyaenus the Macedonian, in one of the two stratagems he gives about Alexander's siege of Tyre, proposes another account as to how Alexander conquered the city.