Feb 24th Daily

Describe relations between Egypt and Persia before Alexander came on the scene.

Egypt and Persia were not on good relations before Alexander came and took over their empires. They were neighboring empires, they did not get a lot at all. They were always fighting, and never got along. Since Alexander came into the two empires with his army, they could chose to be defeated by them with no fighting, like what the Egyptian leaders did, or fight for a victory, and later end with defeat and a large amount of killing, like the Persian army. The Egyptian leaders were very smart and figured that they couldn't beat the Greek army under the rule of Alexander, so they decided to welcome Alexander into their empire taking him in as a king, as if he had already won over their empire. And since Egypt and Persia hated each other at the time, Egypt was able to give advice, weapons, and soldiers to their new emperor and army which lead the Greek empire under Alexander's rule to victory against the Persians, who continued to fight them.