Gemeenschap zonder overzijde: mutual masturbations

In
331 B.C.
Alex marched out
of Egypt
upon Babylon
as Thothmes
and Ramses and Necho
had done
before him!

But
he marched
by the way of Tyre.
At Arbela near the ruins of Nineveh,
which was already a forgotten city,
he met Darius and fought
the decisive battle
of the war.

The Persian
chariot rush failed,
a Macedonian cavalry charge broke up the great composite host
and the phalanx completed
the victory.

Darius
led
the retreat.
HE made no further attempt to resist the invader
but fled northward into the country
of the Medes.

Alex
marched
on to Babylon,
still prosperous and important,
and then to Susa
and Persepolis.
THERE
after a drunken festival
he burned down
the palace of Darius, the king of
kings ...
{shahanshah}.

THENCE
Alex presently
made a military parade of Central Asia,
going to the utmost bounds of
the Persian Empire ...

At first
he turned northward
.............
Darius was pursued;
and he was overtaken at dawn,
dying in his chariot,
having been murdered by
his own people.

He was still living
when the foremost Greeks reached him.
Alex came up to find him
dead!





Alex
skirted the Caspian Sea,
he went up into the mountains of
western Turkestan,
he came down by Herat {which he founded}
and Kabul and the Khyber Pass
into India ..............

He fought a great battle
on the river Indus with an Indian King Porus,
and here the Macedonian troops met elephants for the first time
and defeated them.

FINALLY
he built himself ships,
sailed down to the mouth of the Indus,
and marched back by the coast of Baluchistan,
reaching Susa again in 324 B.C. after
an absence of
six years ...

He then
prepared to
consolidate
and organise this vast empire
he had won.

He sought
to win over his new subjects.
He assumed the robes and tiara of a Persian monarch,
and this roused the jealousy of his
Macedonian commanders ...

He had
much trouble with them .............
He arranged a number of marriages between these Macedonian officers and Persian and Babylonian women;
the "Marriage of the East
and West."

He never lived
to effect the consolidation
he had planned!
A fever seized him after a drinking bout in Babylon
and died in
323 B.C.

IMMEDIATELY
this vast dominion fell to pieces.
One of his generals, Seleucus, retained most of the old Persian Empire
from the Indus to Ephesus;
another,
Ptolemy,
seized Egypt,
and Antigonus
secured Macedonia.

THE REST
OF THE EMPIRE
remained unstable,
passing under the control of a succession
of local adventurers ........
Barbarian raids began from the north
and grew in scope and
intensity!

UNTIL AT LAST,
as we shall tell if
we only get half a chance,
A NEW POWER,
the power of the ROMAN republic,
came out of the west
to subjugate
one fragment
after
another
and
weld them together
into a new and more enduring
empire ........


Nothing new
under sun and moon and stars?


That's the way
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crumble to become the raw material
for 'new' pizza's with other
ingredients,
companies and couriers,
propaganda and
advertisements:


THE
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NEW DEALS & OLD HASH,

AGES OF BULLSHIT WITH KINGS
AND EMPERORS,

PRESIDENTS AND GENERALS,
MINISTERS & NEW POLICE FORCES,

ARMIES & ALLIANCES,
RAW MATERIALS AND SOURCES
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