Tristan Hughes

And you've also, particularly locally, so we talked last time about being in Babylon and how you would expect the city and the areas around it to run their own affairs, to do their own thing.

With often local leaders stay in power or new men, but their locals are appointed to take over.

And the number of Greeks and Macedonians actually running things early on is very small.

You've tried to basically say, I'm now the equivalent of the great king, whatever I call myself.

I am now your ruler.

I am your friend.

I will rule well.

I will respect you.

I will treat you well.

You deal with the day-to-day stuff.

And I won't trouble you, but I will need a few things.

I'll need some money.

I'll need some food for my army.

I'll need supplies.

I'll need some troops.

But you're not demanding too much.

But

It's very hard to make that sort of transition so quickly.

You may have lopped the head off the empire, but the Persians had their problems in controlling areas.

They had problems on the western fringes.