Macedonian king Alexander the Great ruled from 336 to 323 B.C.E. After his fathers death Alexander took power and lead Greece. “In 334 B.C.E. Alexander launched the most astonishing military campaign in ancient history, leading a Macedonian and Greek army against the Persian Empire” (Hunt 116). For everything that Alexander achieved at such a young age, he is known in history as a brilliant military leader and powerful ruler. Alexander was the most powerful Greek ruler. Alexander the Great was born in Pella, the capital of Macedonia. To parents, king Phillip II of Macedonia, and Olympia princess of Epirus. Alexander was also Aristotle student. “Aristotle was Alexander’s tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest in …show more content…
In 334 B.C.E. Alexander began his war against the Persian Empire. “He began his conquest by crossing the Hellespont with an army of 35,000 Macedonian and Greek troops; his chief officers, all Macedonians, included Antigonus, Ptolemy, and Seleucus. At the river Granicus, near the ancient city of Troy, he attacked an army of Persians and Greek mercenaries totaling 40,000 men” (Issues & Controversies). At the end of that battle it is said that Alexander only lost 110 men. All the states of Asia Minor backed downed and accepted him after that battle. After that, “Alexander’s conquest of all the lands from Turkey to Egypt to Uzbekistan while still in his twenties led later peoples to call him Alexander the Great” (Hunt 116). Alexander was a great military leader. He was “noted for his brilliance as a tactician and troop leader and for the rapidity with which he could traverse great expanses of territory” (Issues & Controversies). His army was very loyal to him and a lot of that had to due with the fact that he would fight right next to his army. When his army was exhausted and wanted to go back home, he told them