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[5. Clash with Greece and the Shadow of Alexander (Sikandar)] As the sun set on Persia’s golden age, ambition grew in lands beyond its reach. In Macedonia, a young king rose—a legend known in the East as Sikandar-e-Azam, Alexander the Great. Driven by dreams of glory and tales of Persian wealth, Alexander marched east, his eyes fixed on Persepolis. At the battlefields of Granicus, Issus, and Gaugamela, Darius III—last of the Achaemenids—faced his doom. The world watched as East and West collide