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Gaugamela. The crown moves Persia to Greece by open force, on a date pinned by an eclipse.
In plain words
At Gaugamela, on a date fixed by an eclipse, Alexander takes Persia's crown by open battle: power moving by open force, before the later shift to capture by deception.
The mechanism
FORCE BEFORE THE CROSS — the shift to conquest by capture and deception comes after
How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED; a capture
- Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
- Plate — Babylonian astronomical diary tablet recording the eclipse before Gaugamela, British Museum · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum,_Babylon_Astronomical_Diary,_331-330_BC.jpg
- SourcesSECULAR RECORD + ASTRONOMY — the Babylonian astronomical diary
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