The Battle of Hydaspes

The Battle of the Hydaspes River

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[MrLadrocuori]

70% of Macedonia inhabited by the Illyrians, and even today!

[Alexandros1294]

@MrLadrocuori lol You should go on a comedy tour. That's a good one!

[MrLadrocuori]

THE Macedonian Slavs not healthy nothing with history! because they are race slavo serbo bulgarian are from Siberia and Mongolia the population of Macedonian Ancient Macedonia was populated by Illyrians not with Slaves mongolian siberian

[Alexandros1294]

@MrLadrocuori Wrong again. Macedonians were made up mostly of Greeks, Thracians, Illyrians, Paeonians, and Aryans. Mostly Greeks though.

[Alexandros1294]

@illambri Never underestimate one with a firm grasp of the keyboard, for the keyboard is mighter than the sword... until the power goes out or some shit. lol.

[DarkFilmDirector]

@MrLadrocuori No, not at all. I don't understand what's so popular about this Balkan belief that Illyrians were so ominprescent in every ancient kingdom. They weren't.

The ancient Macedonians were a Hellenized northern Greek population whom was looked down upon by the 'more civilized' Peloponnesian Greeks. Just because the democratic and oligarchic city-states called them barbarians did not imply that they were Illyrian nor Thracian.

[nafaidni]

@Alexandros1294

At the time, I believe the world was divided into three sections of population; Persia and Europe as one, India as one, and China as the other.

India possessed perhaps 30% of the world GDP at the time or more. Its history was successful enough that it possessed 25% of the world GDP by 1800 (2.7% by 1947). It was more than tempting to conquer. It just was beyond the ability of most to conquer a population the size of Europe. The Mongols are a fair example of that.

[Alexandros1294]

@nafaidni As far as camp followers go, plus the army, yes Alexander did outnumber Porus. As far as effective fighting men goes, no, Porus had the advantage in numbers. Alexander was only able to field about 18,000 men at the Hydaspes. But I agree, the battle was not decisive by any means. Also, Seleucus was the only one to try and take territory in India, and no one knows exactly what happened during the campaign other than he failed. No one else wanted Indian land.

[nafaidni]

@Alexandros1294

Note though that Alexander was fighting a small state probably the size of a few cities. He outnumbered and out-equipped them readily. He obviously had more experience. But that doesn't mean that the victory was decisive. If it were, he might have conquered or tried conquering the Mauryas who held territory dozens of times larger than Poros.

It also doesn't explain the failure of the Hellenic kingdoms to make any advances into Indian territory, if the Indians are so unskilled.

[nafaidni]

@flaviusfurius

I doubt the Maurya would have cared much for Alexander. Conquering India was basically like conquering Europe at the time, only that there's more Indians to conquer.

It wouldn't be feasible for Alexander to defeat them all. That's basically why no single body has ruled all of India in 2000 of its last 2500 years.

[MrLadrocuori]

fuck the slavs of macedonia serbian bulgars long live illirians of macedonia albanians