When the third king of Persia was defeated at Issos in the fall of 333, he did not follow his victories by tracing the great king who fled to Babylon, but first opened Phenicia, Egypt, and Cyrenaica. And what almost captured the pictures and Gaza even ?? His face divided Egypt and reached Pelousion in November and was surrounded by a halo of the glory of his recent victories.


It is worth mentioning that when Alexander was in the pictures of a book showing him his successor and all his empire west of the Euphrates ?? "If I were Alexander, I would accept this," Alexander told him in his famous phrase. "If I were also Parmenio." This is an indication of the breadth of Alexander's goals from his campaign against the Persians.


Mazaks did not find the Persian governor who ??? Egypt, then, made it impossible to surrender, because he realized that the resistance was feasible, especially since the Egyptians did not conceal their feelings towards Alexander. The calamities brought upon them by the Persians and the help that the Greeks had received whenever they tried to get rid of the Great King's bond. The memory of the sins of Qambiz Okhos and their constant struggle with the help of the Greeks to draw from the clutches of the Persians was in the minds of the Egyptians. The Egyptians thought that Alexander gave ?? Of their plagues, as the Greeks have repeatedly made before, as the Egyptians were natural allies on their common enemy: the Persians. And did not break the time to the Greeks did not come this time allies, but to harass them and establish the place of Persian rule more severe and the longest that Alexander and the Ptolemies after him keen to show their reverence for the Egyptian religion and took a way to support their status and control ?? And the country's resources.


Egypt has always succeeded in the wake of the former foreign invasions, each time a new royal family of the people of the country, retain the ancient nationalism in the systems of government, civilization and language, but since this moment did not rise the throne of Egypt again Pharaoh Egyptian, since since the advent of Alexander Egypt has undergone nearly Ten centuries for foreign rulers of Macedonians and then of Urman. After that, Egypt became part of the Islamic world, losing its old character and acquiring another character characterized by a new language, a new social order and a new religion.
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