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Haha interesting topic veer there. Arabia was also a source if myrrh or whatever that scented stuff was from. Would have been a good source of wealth.All we can do is wait and see what happens over the next couple of weeks and months. On another (far off) note: this according to an Arrian account; around the time Hephaestion fell sick, died and got his extragavant $1.5 billion equivalent funeral. <45>
“Near Babylon, Alexander constructed a harbor by excavation to afford anchorage for 1,000 ships of war; and adjoining the harbor he built dockyards. Miccalus the Clazomenian was dispatched to Phoenicia with 500 talents to enlist some men and purchase others who were experienced in nautical affairs.
He made these preparations for the fleet to attack the main body of the Arab and planned to occupy Arabia under the pretext that they were the only barbarians of this region who had not sent an embassy to him or done anything else becoming their position and showing respect to him. But the truth was, as it seems to me, that Alexander was insatiably ambitious of acquiring fresh territory.”
The Persians also occupied a lot of the Arabian peninsula on the Gulf side. So there was that reason for going to war.
Alexander was good at womping tribal nomads. He did it in Afghanistan but had to get cooties to get them to calm down.