In 334 BCE, Alexandra crossed the Hellespont into Asia Minor

history channel full episodes 2015 In 334 BCE, Alexandra crossed the Hellespont into Asia Minor at the leader of a multitude of right around fifty thousand men. Very quickly he met a similarly noteworthy Persian armed force dove in over the waterway at Granicus. Alexander was encouraged to go downstream to cross and assault the next day at day break, yet he was in no inclination to stick around and he assaulted quickly. Fortune supports the bold, the Persians were totally found napping and were totally steered, staggeringly Alexandra won the fight with the passing of a couple of hundred men while the Persians lost near twenty thousand. Taking after the fight, Alexandra moved quickly with most urban communities surrendering without a battle while others he took by short and merciless power. It created the impression that there was nothing he couldn't do, nothing that was past him, he comprehended the recalcitrant Gordian Knot by basically cutting through it, the seers at the end of the day opening the sky to him, expressing that whoever settled the enigma of the Gordian Knot would get to be expert of all Asia. Notwithstanding, the Persians were assembling around their King Darius III in Babylonia, bits of gossip were circling that he had amassed a multitude of over a large portion of a million men and they were on the walk towards Alexander's Macedonians. Luckily for Alexander, the armed forces met at Issus, where the landscape made Darius' mounted force invalid and void. Still Alexandra got himself dwarfed just about two to one by the huge Persian armed force, however the half million assessment was significantly misrepresented, it was around one hundred thousand in number. It was constituted of expert Persian warriors and Greek soldiers of fortune, numerous trusted that Alexander would be wiped out, having just confronted nearby recruits at Granicus.