SELEUCID KINGDOMS THAT CONTROLLED JUDEA BEFORE CHRIST WAS BORN

SELEUCID KINGDOMS THAT CONTROLLED JUDEA BEFORE JESUS CHRIST WAS BORN













The story of Alexander the Great is very familiar to most Indians that Alexander invaded India in 326 BCE. He fought a fierce battle with King Porus (battle of the Hydaspes River) in modern day Pakistan. Porus was defeated but Alexander spared his life and allowed him to rule the area under his name. Alexander then reached the Beas River in Himachal Pradesh and decided to turn back after his army started revolting (many people in the ancient world including the Greeks also believed that India was the end of the world


 As Alexander started his long journey back to Macedonia he awarded most of the lands captured by him to various Satraps (Persian name for governors). Over the course of time many of these Satraps became emperors controlling large tracks of land INLUDING JUDEA  appointed by Alexander or the lasting legacy that they left on the long history of India


Chandragupta was before he became emperor of “India”). This Persian was an important member of Alexander’s conquests. Diodorus (ancient Greek historian) indicates that it was Tridates who handed the Persian treasury over to the Greeks after Alexander defeated the Persian Empire led by King Darius III.