Founding of Alexandria
Alexander plants the future capital of Hellenistic science
Alexander the Great founded a city bearing his name on the Nile Delta coast. Under the Ptolemies Alexandria became Egypt's capital, the greatest port of the Mediterranean and the chief centre of Hellenistic learning.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 331 BC Battle of Gaugamela — same year
- 323 BC Death of Alexander the Great — 8 years later
Asia
- c. 322 BC Founding of the Maurya Empire — 9 years later
Alive at the time
- Aristotle (aged 53)
- Alexander the Great (aged 25)
- Mencius (aged 41)
- Chandragupta Maurya (aged 9)
- Olympias (aged 44)
- Zhuangzi (aged 38)
- Ptolemy I Soter (aged 36)
- Pytheas (aged 19)
- Qu Yuan (aged 9)