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Ahmed The Fighter
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Topic: Why Alexander did not invade India? Posted: 14-Jul-2005 at 10:50 |
After a long trip alexander's army rufused to going forward
I dont know the real reason
What you think?
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Yiannis
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Posted: 14-Jul-2005 at 11:04 |
here're some relevant (more or less) topics
http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3753& ;PN=1
http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4165& ;PN=1
In the end, as you say, it was a too long trip!
Imagine an army walking all the way from Greece to Pakistan, fighting so many wars and not seeing their families for so many years. They were already rich and did not want to die in a foreign land, like so many did in the battle of Hydaspes.
It was time to stop!
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Posted: 27-Jul-2005 at 22:57 |
Considering that he had to struggle with Porus who was a chieftan of a relatively small kingdom, facing the Nandas in Central India would have become way to big of a challenge. Also India put huge amounts of resistance against the greeks.
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Posted: 28-Jul-2005 at 04:20 |
Ok Ithias but this was not a big reason to stop Alexander he removed persian army outnumberd than him.
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Posted: 28-Jul-2005 at 05:30 |
You missed Itihaas's point. What he was
trying to say was that the central Indian kingdoms were willing to put up a big
fight against Alexander (eg the Nandas). Alexanders men would have no
intention of loosing their lives so far away from home when they had already
won large amounts of wealth from their previous wars (like Yiannis said).
I still think that he
wouldnt have succeeded his conquest of India for the reasons in the two
treads Yiannis has posted.
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Paul
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Posted: 28-Jul-2005 at 23:23 |
Defeating the Persian Empire was quite different to defeating India. Persia was a unified kingdom, he only had one body to defeat. India was divided into several kingdoms, he'd have to take each one out individually.
Also, mediteranians hate spicy food.
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Posted: 29-Jul-2005 at 04:07 |
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Posted: 29-Jul-2005 at 06:02 |
Originally posted by Paul
Also, mediteranians hate spicy food. |
If only Porus knew!!!!!
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Posted: 29-Jul-2005 at 10:58 |
In that case Alexander would have been creammed when if he went to south India. Our food is far spicier than any north Indian....
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Posted: 29-Jul-2005 at 17:33 |
His army would have starved to death in Sri Lanka
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Posted: 29-Jul-2005 at 18:41 |
Originally posted by Paul
His army would have starved to death in Sri Lanka |
I doubt he could even have made it that far, he would have got really sick with all those jungle diseases.
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Posted: 29-Jul-2005 at 19:43 |
Didn't King Poros (sp?) defeat him?
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Posted: 30-Jul-2005 at 00:02 |
Originally posted by Zagros Purya
Didn't King Poros (sp?) defeat him? |
Nope but Alexander said that that was his hardest battle ever. The thing is that a chieftan of a tiny nation putting so much resistance, fighting a larger kingdom like the Nandas, Alexander had no chance...
In fact at one point the Indian soldiers drafted into Alexander's army mutinied, and men women and children all fought the mighty Macedonian army, but were all killed. The thing is though that like a suicide bomb they took as many people down with them, and it really affected the psyche of the Alexander's army.
Also even if Alexander went deeper into India, Chanakya who was becoming more powerful may have united a few Indian states to counter the macedonian army. He had allies in a few kingdoms, I remember that Nepal and Gandhara were his allies. Anyway Chanakya's fighting strategies were dangerous for the time as it took a heavy toll on the Selucid Empire later on.
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Posted: 30-Jul-2005 at 05:04 |
Originally posted by Zagros Purya
Didn't King Poros (sp?) defeat him? |
Like written above, but i would like to add something.
Macedonian and western sources claim that he beat Porus, Indian sources
claim he lost to Porus. Whether he won or not the fight was the hardest
(or so he claims) battle he'd fought yet.
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Posted: 06-Oct-2006 at 07:26 |
Porus was just a small king of a tiny state 60 miles across. He was also not like by many who helped Alex. Their were far too many states Alex would have had to fight to reach the Nandas. His army rebelled because of the following :
1. Loss / Truce with prous 2. The heavy losses suffered by the greek army, something they hadn't been exposed to even though they won agains a persia, egypt who were huge empires. 3. The tiny status of porus in the Indian polity. (If a small porus can do this, what would the beigger ones do) 4. Too many states too fight to the nanda kingdom, 5. Rebellion by the Indian soldiers in the Freek army, which did another round of great destruction to the greeks. 6. Greeks had the military support of Ambhi against Porus, but nobody to support them furhter. Ambhi was only interested in a revenge with porus. 7. Tales (may be exaggerated) of the strength of the Nanda army.
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Posted: 06-Oct-2006 at 07:42 |
Read the following articles available in the websites:
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Posted: 06-Oct-2006 at 07:48 |
Informative & Good articles.
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Posted: 17-Oct-2006 at 21:31 |
porus was in modern day punjab right? anyways may be the reason he didn't invade present day india is probably because india was such a strange land, i mean its culture was so different from lets say persia or other empires.
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Posted: 20-Oct-2006 at 17:03 |
or other reason could be that he found indians smelly, which is most likely lol
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Posted: 21-Oct-2006 at 03:29 |
I thought Alexander made some mention of his knowledge of the Nanda Indian Army.
Like they had hundreds of elephants which were the ancient world's
equivalent of the tank. After fighting Porus he might have been
terrified to face an army 5 or 10 times the size of Porus's.
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