The story of Alexander the Greta is one of power, courage and great accomplishment. According to Pearson Custom Library Connections: A world history, volume 1 “in the words of one scholar Alexander was self-confident, endlessly curious and reckless.”
Alexander the Great was born to Phillip II of Macedonia and Olympias in 356 B.C. He was taught by a great philosopher by the name of Aristotle. He learned Rhetoric, Literature, and opened his interest to Science, Medicine and Philosophy.
At the age of twenty (20) years in 336 B.C Alexander the Great became the new King of Macedonia due to assassination of his father; Phillip II. His father’s dream was always to invade the Persian Empire and he made his dream a reality and fulfilled such.
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They were not Greek but Alex wanted to resurrect Greece to its former glory. Greece prior to this time was going through a series of wars. Sparta and Athens glory was gone and the great age of Athens was over.
In 334 B.C Alexander the Great attacked the Persian Empire with a military army of about thirty seven thousand hundred (37000) men. The battle was at the Granicus River; 334 B.C and the Persians were
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He marched to Babylon, and then went to Susa and on to Persepolis where he burned the palaces and looted the city. After which, many Greek states then turned to Alexander's control. Alexander declared war on Persia in 334 B.C., and defeated a Persian army near the city of Troy. This resulted in the submission of all states in Asia Minor to him. In 330 B.C King Darius II was killed by his own cousin and Alexander declared himself as King.
Throughout three (3) years; he travelled and in the summer of 327 B.C he entered India at the battle of the Hydaspes River. There he went to war and won the fight. Trying to conquer more of India his men refused to continue fighting year after year. Some of the soldiers died from lack of water and from the scorching hot sun in the desert.
Planning and organizing more attacks and expeditions; incapacitated and exhausted from wounds, fever and drunk from alcohol on the 10th June, 323 B.C Alexander the Great succumbed to his injuries and died during the prime of his life at age thirty two.
At this point, at the age of 25, Alexander ruled an expansive empire. Nevertheless, his ambitions were not satisfied. While fighting the Persians, Alexander conquered Egypt and founded a city at the mouth of the Nile River. This city, which he named Alexandria after himself, became a cosmopolitan, diverse, bustling centre of trade, the arts, and