HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
Question
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Babylon
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Macedonia
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Kabul
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Susa
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Babylon in 323 BC, Alexander died when he was nearly 33 years old. Possible explanations for his death have included alcoholic liver disease and strychnine poisoning, but little data support either condition as the cause of his death.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to a Babylonian astronomical diary, Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon between the evening of 10 June and the evening of 11 June 323 BC, at the age of 32.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the Persian (Achaemenid) period, Babylon was at the centre of a huge empire that stretched from India to the Eastern Mediterranean. Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king, eventually defeated this empire and he captured Babylon in 331 BC.
Detailed explanation-4: -Alexander the Great, the young Macedonian military genius who forged an empire stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to India, dies in Babylon, in present-day Iraq, at the age of 32.