Alexander defeated the Persian Army, which at that time controlled all of Asia Minor, Modern Turkey, and had even threatened to control Greece.

亚历山大大败波斯军队，波斯人当时控制了整个小亚细亚，现代土耳其，甚至扬言要占领希腊。

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It's a helpful little story to remember, because we tend to think of Greece because of its modern geography as that peninsula of which there is a sub peninsula at the bottom, which is Peloponnesus.

这是个很生动的比喻,因为我们都认为现代希腊的,地理环境,在其底部是,一个分离于大陆的半岛,即伯罗奔尼撒半岛

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