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Alexander the Great Fights Darius III

Alexander the Great Fights Darius III

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Near the ancient town of Issus, in the modern Turkish province of Hatay (the finger of territory extending south toward Lebanon between Syria and the Mediterranean), Alexander the Great and his army ended the first Persian (Achaemenid) Empire. This mosaic, created in Pompeii in the first century B.C., depicts the crucial moment in 333 B.C. when Alexander broke the Persian lines. The terrified Persian king, Darius III, grabbed his own chariot reins—unthinkable for Persian monarchs, who always relied on charioteers—and fled the field.
‎Dan 8:5–8, Dan 11:2–4, 1 Macc 1:1, 1 Macc. 7, 1 Macc 6:2
‎Image by user virtusincertus, from Flickr. License: CC BY 2.0

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Alexander the Great was Black





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