[linMcHlp]

Bakersfield, CA

[chajin]

“Gaza City, Palestine

The last city to put up resistance on Alexander’s warpath to Egypt, the port city of Gaza was besieged by Alexander’s army for a period of five months in 332 BC, and his troops killed or took captive nearly all of its inhabitants.

Alexander then brought in local Bedouins to populate Gaza, and he then organized the city into a polis (or “city-state”), establishing the roots of Greek culture in the area. Soon afterward, Gaza earned a reputation as a flourishing center of Hellenic learning and philosophy.”

Then the Palestinians got a hold of it.

[linMcHlp]

Siege of Gaza (332 BC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Gaza_(332_BCE)

EXCERPTS

Alexander succeeded in breaching the walls of Gaza by utilizing the engines that he had employed earlier that year, during the siege of Tyre. Following three unsuccessful assaults, the Macedonian army was able to storm and take the Gazan stronghold.

Batis, the military commander of Gaza’s fortress, expected to hold the city as well as the rest of Egypt in complete subjection until the raising of another army by Persian king Darius III; confronting Alexander at Gaza was crucial to denying the Macedonians a route into the Egyptian mainland.

The fortress was located on an eminence, on the edge of a desert from which the surrounding area could be easily controlled, including the main road from Assyria to Egypt.

The city, over 18 metres (60 ft) high, was traditionally employed to control the surrounding area, which, even then, was a hotbed of dissent.

Batis was aware that Alexander was leading his army southward after successfully conquering Tyre, and therefore provisioned Gaza for a long siege by the Macedonian army.

It is also likely that he was aware of Alexander’s intention to secure absolute control over the Mediterranean coast before mounting an invasion of the Persian mainland.

[KobraKai]

He was setting up franchises.

[Daveinyork]

You forgot the GREAT lakes😀

[MeanWestTexan]

Still trying to figure out how he got to Virginia

[Tennessee Nana]

PING

[Macho MAGA Man]

Somehow he made it to Alexandria, Louisiana north of Cajun country.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Greek glory days have been over for how many thousands of years? At least they still have stuffed grapes and young boys.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. Very interesting. BUMP

[ArtDodger]

South Of The Border, Hamer, South Carolina
You never sausage a place!

[Paal Gulli]

"... Around the Globe....?"

A bit hyperbolic, don't you think?