Warum konnte Alexander der Große das Perserreich zerstören?
Servus, Duane!
Unten ist ein Auszug aus einer Antwort in Quora-Englisch. Darin habe ich auf die Frage geantwortet: "Could Nazi Germany have defeated the USSR?"
Falls es Dich interessiert, kannst Du den ganzen Beitrag hier lesen: Eduardo Belgrano's answer to Could Nazi Germany have defeated the USSR?
Der Deine Frage relevante Teil lautet wie folgt:
First of all, allow me to state that there are essentially two ways of conquering an enemy and win when you are fighting the world, namely:
The Mongol way. Under this modality, you kill every person, soldiers and civilians alike, (The Mongols even went a far as killing cats and dogs!)
Alexander’s way. Alexander the Great defeated Darius’ Persian empire and kept it under control with a Macedonian army averaging only 40,000 men compared to hundreds of thousands on the Persian side. His secret? After defeating them, he mostly treated his enemies magnanimously (with some exceptions), gave back political control to the vanquished leaders, while keeping Macedonians in charge of military affairs. He integrated erstwhile enemies, who respected him and gladly became part of his army to fight against Alexander’s enemies.
Mosaic (a retouched version) representing the battle of Alexander the Great against Darius III the Great, possibly the Battle of Issus or Battle of Gaugamela, perhaps after an earlier Greek painting of Philoxenus of Eretria. This mosaic was found in Pompeii in the House of the Faun and is now in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples). It is dated first century BC.