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His dreams were fulfilled, and even surpassed, by his son Alexander the Great, in a brief but action-filled lifetime of only 33 years (356–323 b.c. ). In 334 b.c. , aged only 22, he led his army across the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles), and paused at Troy to make a sacrifice at the temple of Athena and pay homage to his hero Achilles, before going on to defeat the Persians at the Battle of Granicus and liberating the Ionian cities.
Although the Persians’ forces and resources were vastly superior, Darius hadn’t anticipated the amazing courage and battlefield skill of the Greeks.
The Kurds have spent most of the last two millennia fighting against, or allying with, the Arabs, the Persians, and the Turks.
By the ninth century, a large colony of Arabs, Jews, Persians, and others had settled here.
With Lydia defeated, the Greek coastal cities lay open to the Persians, who swiftly incorporated them into their empire.