Tristan Hughes

Why are you staying?

So it's a big deal.

And it's something the Persians hadn't done.

There aren't colonies of Persian troops settled out here.

They had tried to run their empire in a different way by, again, winning over the local aristocracy, controlling by a mixture of bribery and force.

And Alexander's doing something different.

And again, Alexandria the furthest, it must have seemed a pretty bleak, distant place to the settlers.

But those settlers would seem all the more weird and strange and alien and intruders to the local population, as well as the inevitable disruption of...

the power balance between the local nobility and add in the sense that these people who are settling there are acting as the conquerors of the world because they are the conquerors of the world as far as they're concerned.

So they're not likely to be too respectful of your customs either.

It's the convenience factor.

It's not that they're necessarily always going to be united.

It's just that they feel they have a common.

So it would be better for both of them if the Macedonians go away.

So therefore, let's combine to fight them.

It doesn't need to be a permanent political revolution.

Though obviously, Spetamenes' leader wants something.

He thinks he's building up permanent power, but he can rally them enough against a common enemy.

Which is something the Macedonians are good at.

They've done before.