Identifier: historyofancient03good (find matches)
Title: A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Goodspeed, George Stephen, 1860-1905
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Union of Greeks and Persians 217 bition. He aspired to be conqueror of the world. In327 B.C. he crossed the mountains into India, whither the campaignPersians had already gone before him (§90). He overran * ^^^the valley of the river Indus, won a victory from the Indianking Porus, and would have marched eastward to theriver Ganges had not his army refused to follow him intothese unknown and distant regions. Returning, he moveddown the Indus to its mouth, and made a voyage into theIndian ocean. He took his army up the coast in a marchof terrible difficulty, ordered his fleet to follow by sea, andreached Susa early in 324 B.C. 267. Hardly had he returned from his Indian campaign Deveiop-when he plunged into the task of organizing his Empire ^^^^^^1on the lines which he had planned. The union of Mace- i^^^^s.donians and Persians was encouraged by his taking asanother wife the daughter of Darius, and inducing hisnobles hkewise to marry Persian women. Others of hisofficers and soldiers wh

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