In order to keep it all straight, I thought I would show the map first. I found a map of his route in the Historical Atlas of the World. It's a nice colored map but the details are really small. I have a scan of this in the class locker, but so far you have no way to view it. I think until I make viewing the class locker possible, including the graphics and the sounds and so on, I'm just going to print these out and put them in a notebook in the sci lib on reserve.
Most of our story of Euclid's voyage will take place right around the Meditarranean, but Alexander and his conquest traveled far to the east, until the Himalayas and the elephants stopped him in India. I made a Xerox copy of this map, trying to turn it into a histomap, which should be a flip book, or a little movie. As far as the rate of speed is concerned, it took 12 years of work creating the largest kingdom in history. It started from Pela, in Macedonia, which is to the north of Greece. Pela is the capital of Macedonia, the capital of King Phillip II, Alexander's father,close to the Serbian border. Year 1, the fighting of today; year 2, approaching the Holy Land; year 3, down to the Nile; year 4, crossing along the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, he founded Alexandria (an item we'll return to later), visits the Oracle of Aman, receives an oracle and goes on in year 4 at huge speed to the middle of Persia; year 5, year 6 gets him up to the Hindu kush, to the farthest outreach where he spends about 3 years milling around and conquering. Year 9 brings him to India, where the soldiers rebelled because they clearly saw the possibility of defeat. Alexander, very uncharacteristically, gave in and they escaped, conquering what part of India they could. They went down this river system, across the coast of the Indian Ocean through some horrible desert. In year 11, they returned to Terra Firma in the Persian Empire, and in year 12, they went back to Babylon. The general Heshestian, Alexander's lover, died in Ekbatana in the eleventh year, and six months later Alexander died in Babylon, as we will see.