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Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from ...

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AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION. 459Bactria <strong>and</strong> Sogdiana were <strong>the</strong> seat <strong>of</strong> an ancient <strong>and</strong> welldevelopedcivilization, <strong>and</strong> had since <strong>the</strong>ir conquest been <strong>the</strong>eastern bul<strong>war</strong>k <strong>of</strong> Persia. Never entirely reduced to possessionby <strong>the</strong> Great King, <strong>the</strong>y had none <strong>the</strong> less joined hisst<strong>and</strong>ard, while retaining <strong>the</strong>ir own liberties ;<strong>and</strong>, in <strong>the</strong> lastc Y rc\^.^^"XENlPPA o k|;>? AlEKANDRfA Ut.TlMA>^_ffj^„f„vi>'> /'v CYROPOLIS q/^s"^~"^~Bactria <strong>and</strong> Sogdiana.campaigns, Bessus had been ra<strong>the</strong>r a confederate than a subordinate<strong>of</strong> Darius. That Bessus had brought <strong>the</strong> ScythianSacae to Arbela as " allies <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Great King " looked as if<strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong> might have to encounter <strong>the</strong>se wild peoples aswell.

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