The biggest thing that I found odd earlier on in the reading was that Alexander was more confident in his ability to hold Asia with infantry than he was in the ability of Greece to defeat the Persian navy. I thought this was odd because it seemed like Athens with the Delian league was more or less able to dominate the Persian navy in the Mediterranean when Athens was at the peak of its empire. The fact that the navy of Alexander when he controlled all of Greece and then some still wasn't powerful enough to defeat a Persian navy that probably already had a fair number of deserters if the impression I got later on with the speed of people deserting the Persian navy is correct.
Also two other small things that I thought were odd and cool were the fact that apparently Ptolemy was a far more common name than I thought, and also the development of silt deposits forming a land-bridge around the mole to Tyre was absolutely incredible.
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