At the Battle of Issus in 333 BC, which Persian monarch was forced to flee the battlefield before Alexander?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Darius III
- Step 1: The Battle of Issus (also Issos ) occurred in southern Anatolia, on 5 November 333 BC between the Hellenic League led by Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid (or Persian) Empire, led by Darius III. Answer: Darius III. Why not the others: "Xerxes I" led the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, more than a century earlier; "Artaxerxes III" was a brutal Achaemenid king who reconquered Egypt and died in 338 BC; "Cyrus the Great" was the 6th-century BC founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.
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