The Persian Empire eventually falls to Alexander …
Years: 333BCE - 190BCE
The Persian Empire eventually falls to Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia.
He attacks Asia Minor, defeats the Persian troops in 333 BCE, and advances toward the Lebanese coast.
Initially the Phoenician cities make no attempt to resist, and they recognize his suzerainty.
Tyre resists, however, when Alexander tries to offer a sacrifice to Melkurt, the city's god.
Alexander besieges Tyre in retaliation in early 332 BCE.
The city falls after six months of resistance, and its people are sold into slavery.
Alexander's conquest of the eastern Mediterranean Basin leaves a Greek imprint on the area despite his early death in 323 BCE.
The Phoenicians, being a cosmopolitan people amenable to outside influences, adopt aspects of Greek civilization with ease.
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- Phoenicians
- Tyre, Kingdom of (Phoenicia)
- Greece, classical
- Persian people
- Carthage, Kingdom of
- Greeks, Classical
- Achaemenid Empire
- Phoenicia, Achaemenid
- Alexander, Empire of
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Years: 333BCE - 190BCE
People
Groups
- Semites
- Phoenicians
- Tyre, Kingdom of (Phoenicia)
- Greece, classical
- Persian people
- Carthage, Kingdom of
- Greeks, Classical
- Achaemenid Empire
- Phoenicia, Achaemenid
- Alexander, Empire of
- Phoenicia, Hellenistic
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