Explanation For Those Wondering: When Alexander the Great reached India, his veteran Macedonian troops - who had been fighting and traveling nonstop for over a decade - mutinied, not wishing to end up any further from home than they already were. They were professionals, but they did not have set ‘terms’ to serve, per se - their service ended when their warlord (Alexander) decided his campaigns were over. For that reason, they were not exactly thrilled at the possibility of starting yet another campaign, this time in a land whose borders they did not even understand! At least Persia was somewhat known to the Hellenized Macedonians!

Alexander had little choice but to acquiesce to their demands, and reluctantly would turn back from the prospect of a campaign in India. Alexander would die on the way back home, splintering his massive, newly-conquered empire amongst his top generals, whose descendants quarreled over the territories Alexander conquered for the next few hundred years.

It took me a bit, I thought he was marching heterosexual guys off the edge of the earth. Too far, Alexander. We need them and they’re sometimes fun to look at.