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⚔ Conquest / annexation

Alexander crosses the Hindu Kush into Gandhara

327 BCE – present · 📍 Kapisa
🗺 See the map in 327 BCE

Where it happened.

Meanwhile (within 10 years)

  1. 326 BCE ⚔ Battle of the Hydaspes
  2. 326 BCE Alexander's army mutinies at the Beas
  3. 325 BCE Alexander's army sails down the Indus
  4. c. 321 BCE Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nandas · Mauryan Empire
  5. c. 317 BCE ⚔ Chandragupta takes the northwest from Alexander's satraps · Mauryan Empire

Alive at the time

Chanakya (Kautilya)
active c. 320 BCE
Author of the Arthashastra and adviser to Chandragupta Maurya
Megasthenes
active c. 300 BCE
Greek envoy to Pataliputra who wrote the Indica
Alexander the Great
356–323 BCE
Macedonian king who invaded the northwest in 326 BCE
Porus
active c. 326 BCE
King who fought Alexander at the Hydaspes
Seleucus I Nicator
c. 358–281 BCE
Hellenistic king who ceded the northwest to Chandragupta Maurya
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