The actual history of Alexander the Great has been built up by numerous legends and myths that divinized his figure as the one chosen to conquest the known world of the moment. Throughout the historians of the era and art in general, many details about how his empire’s qualities slowly changed have been found, and those features have been very similar in mostly all of his conquered empire, especially Persian lands. Since he was very little he seemed curious by the Persian Empire such as the conquest of Macedonia by this nation. He found his model to imitate in Achilles, main character of the history written by Homer. Bucephalus, his black horse, accompanied him during his travel conquering the majority of Asia. So was the link he had with this horse that after its death, several conquered cities were named after him.
His conquest began the 335 b.C after he was named Hegemon and finished with the rebellion in Greece. Although his army wasn’t as numerous as the Persian Empire’s one was, the soldiers of Darius III, Alexander’s strategy was to end with the nation as soon as he could. All the Persian cities seemed to oppose to the conquest because of the benefits and well-being they were having thanks to the economic policies imposed by the nation. That was one detail Alexander paid attention to in order to convince the occupied territories not
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The crosswise formation made the morale of the enemy corps decrease exponentially while the victory spree of Alexander made his person seem like if he was the chosen one to subjugate every place he went. Nevertheless numerous battalions of the recently defeated populations joined the new troops of the Macedonian Empire, which was now not only formed by Greeks and Macedonians, but also by Persian cavalry and different armed forces from a vast variety of