Cookie Monster
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If the modern day Iran is somehow that old Persian empire then by that reasoning all previous empires are technically still here. Macedonia/Greece are still here and so is Italy.both Meceden/Greek and Rome as political/military power are dead for almost 500 years but Iran is still here ... so don't try to act mighty for us ....
All nationalism aside the modern day Iran is not that Persian empire that faced off with Alexander. Those past empires are long gone but they are still very fascinating to study.
The mosaic is from Pompeji.
After the loss of Gaugamela, Darius did not retreat. He simply run away in panic. That was his mistake i believe. In general i believe that Persia at that time suffered from bad leadership. Darius III was a weak king and bad leader.
That he did run away and left his troops behind him, ruined his renomee. I think that was also the reason why he was killed then.
I wouldn't say Darius had bad leadership. He ruled such a large empire splendidly(without much internal strife). It was one of the richest empires of the time with one of the biggest military. It's just that Alexander was a genius at battle tactics...so basically when compared with Darius, Alexander far outshines him in that regard. But there's more to being king than just leading armies...on that front Darius did okay until Alexander conquered his empire.
Besides the battle of Gaugamela, another one of my favorites is the Battle of Cannae. I personally love studying ancient(and modern) battle tactics. If I could somehow program the military genius of these ancient minds in a computer...I would love to pit Alexander with Hannibal...and just watch the simulations over and over.