3 101 X Pella was the capital of Macedonia from the late 5th century BC to 167 BC. It had good communications to the sea because of its advantageous position on the river Lydias. It was replaced in importance by Thessalonica when Macedonia became a Roman Province in 146 BC.
# PW Pella
4 101 X Antioch was a Hellenistic city founded in Syria by Seleucus I in 300 BC. It was named after his father, Antiochus and became the capital city of the Seleucid Empire. It benefited from trade and fertile agricultural lands and was considered the third greatest city of the Hellenistic World.
# PW Antioch
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#ALEXANDRIA CM
6 102 A Taxila was a rich city situated at the junction of three great trade-routes from the Ganges cities, West Asia and Central Asia. The city surrendered to Alexander the Great when he invaded India in 326 BC and its resources were placed at his disposal. It was absorbed into the Mauryan Empire a decade after Alexander's death.
# PW Taxila
7 101 X Ecbatana was founded around 678 BC and became the ancient capital of the Medes. It was also a summer palace for Achaemenid and Parthian kings. Ecbatana had seven great concentric walls which surrounded the city, but this did not prevent its capture by Alexander the Great in 330 BC.
# PW Ecbatana
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# IW The Rosetta Stone
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# IW Ay Khanoum
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# IS THE ROYAL TOMBS OF MACEDON
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#PHILIP II IW
13 101 X At the time of his death in 323 BC, Alexander had won dominion over a vast area, from Egypt to north-west India. The great Persian Empire formed the greater part of his conquests but had been smaller in extent, its kings having failed to conquer Greece 150 years earlier. Alexander's untimely death robbed him of the opportunity to consolidate his empire, and it was soon dismembered by the rival claimants in the wars of succession.
