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The march through this inhospitable region lasts sixty days, during which many of the soldiers perish from fatigue or disease.
324 B. C :
Alexander reaches Babylonia, where ambassadors from various countries assemble to pay him homage. His mind is still occupied with plans of conquests. His next design is the subjugation of Arabia. Preparations are made. Suddenly he is taken ill with fever and dies on the 28th of June, 323 B.C., at the early age of 33.
321 B. C.
Second partition of the Macedonian Empire ; Seleucus Nicator obtains Babylon, Syria, Persia and Aryana.
320 B. C.
Chandragupta Maurya lays the foundation of a powerful kingdom in Northern India.
317 B. C.
Eudamus, Greek governor, withdraws from the Indus valley and Chandragupta makes himself master of the Punjab.
305-302 B. C.
Seleucus, in his eagerness to equal his former master, crosses the Indus into India. But he is defeated by Chandragupta and has to return home after concluding a hasty peace, by which he surrenders the provinces of Parapomisadae, Arachosia, Gedrosia and a part of Aeria to the Indian monarch and receives only 500 war elephants in exchange for all these concessions.
298 B. C.
Accession of Bhindusara, son of Chandragupta, to the Mauryan throne. During his reign his
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