The eastern district was famous for three main things.
First of all, its large presence of soldiers and their families, giving it the colloquial name- Soldier's district.
Second was its large, permanent slave market situated near the gates. It was said a thousand slaves were sold every day there, which was roughly 0.5% of the city's total population.
Third was its various legal and illegal pleasure centers.
And it was this last section that Alexander decided to focus on first.
The legal establishments consisted of some of the biggest and best restaurants in the city serving all sorts of regional and foreign delicacies, a large number of hotels, inns, and bars serving various types of alcohol and spirits, a few registered red light houses catering to men and some to even wealthy women, some gambling houses where dice and a game similar to darts was played, and a handful of smoking bars, where cannabis, opium, and an extremely bitter leaf similar to betel leaf was served.
