So when you are a kid surfing between various languages its easy to miss the point that some people you are being told about are actually famous and the places they were looking for were name brand.
It makes for some interesting writing later on but before the dots connect.
I was told that we ran the region prior to Alexander because the people on our peripheries with whom we traded insisted that we keep them aware that we were a different sort of person than the usual kind that they tended to run all kinds of games on, and this caused us to organize in ways that weren't self justified within our own families though did provide us benefits that we wouldn't have otherwise known.
We did a lot with pujahs and didn't have any kind of police or army and left that to the peripheral groups who were given regular training on how to not set off the hands of gods but when Alexander arrived they quickly set to twisting what they were salient of and what they were not, and it didn't help that advancements in ship building had improved communication between some of the groups that used to randomly draw down the system without warning, but now could coordinate their activities so that they could use astrological timing to make troubles of certain kinds right when people in these places would be drawing off the energy so that immediate consequences were not so apparent.
Anyway, when everyone told us they couldn't tell the difference between us and the Macedonians just because we had similar complexions sorta we told them that they weren't worth the effort anymore and decided to do other things, though rumors persisted that we still maintained a city state somewhere hidden to mere mortals, though that's kinda how information gets twisted about how we used to occupy a very vast territory ourselves with people directly involved with us and to manage the affairs for those around us so that they could also enjoy a much higher standard of civilization than modernity has replaced for them.
