European historians have listed the four great conquerors of Europe, three of which are julius Caesar the Founder of the Roman Empire, Hannibal, a famous general in the ancient country of Carthage in North Africa, and Napoleon, the French Emperor who caused a bloody storm in Europe in the Middle Ages, these three can be said to be the top figures of their generations, and the fourth, Alexander the Great, his achievements, are not at all lost to the above three people.
Alexander was a man of the 4th century BC, his father was the king of the Macedonian kingdom, and Alexander took over his father's position as a new generation of kings when he became an adult, and he studied under the famous ancient Greek scholar Aristotle, making himself not only a king who ruled the four sides, but also as a general who was both literate and martial.
With his own great talent, he successively unified the whole territory of Greece, and then swept through the Middle East, destroying the Persian Empire at that time with fewer victories and more victories, he forced Egypt to surrender with powerful force, occupied here without bloodshed, and established the most famous port city in Egypt at that time, Alexander, who was only 24 years old at this time.
After occupying all of Persia, alexander could have established a huge empire spanning Asia, Africa and Europe, but at this time he was not satisfied with the current situation, but continued to lead his army into India, reaching the Heydaspes River east of the Indus River, where he completely defeated the army of the Indian king Bolas who had come to resist.
In respect of Bolas's bravery, Alexander personally released and pardoned him to continue to be king of India, which also made Boras's loyalty to Alexander's deathly heart.
All of the above results were completed in B.C., which can be called a feat in human history, and some people have questioned why Alexander did not continue to conquer China after conquering India. At this time, China was in the Warring States period, the princely states were constantly fighting wars, and they did not have the effort to worry about the situation outside, and the real establishment of diplomatic relations with the West was also a matter of the Han Dynasty's envoy to the Western Regions.
Nowadays historians believe that a large part of the reason why Alexander stopped military conquest was because the people under him were unwilling to fight anymore and were clamoring to go home, so Alexander the Great could only give up, but if Alexander, as the most prestigious leader at that time, if he insisted on going his own way, it was not impossible to continue to lead the army, the most critical place was that he lacked information about China, at that time there was no official communication between India and China, and Alexander always wanted to go east. He sent his men on a series of expeditions, including identifying India and the estuary, searching for the Persian Gulf, and mapping coastal topography to the east.
This is enough to prove that Alexander the Great had ambitions to continue to conquer, and a thousand-year-old map of Greece, which unveiled the mystery of why Alexander did not conquer China, was called the Ptolemaic map, the world's first map of the world, born in the second century.
We can see from this map that even during the second century, Westerners did not know the situation of India to the east, and Alexander and others therefore did not know that there was a very large civilization empire in the east, and the traffic roads in BC were very unsmooth and developed, and the reason why Alexander did not continue the crusade can be clearly explained.