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In the beginning, The Ancient Persian Empire was the greatest empire in the world during the period of, 550 B.C.E. to 331 B.C.E. The Greek and Macedonian victories over the Persians during this time led to the “Hellenistic World.” This period ran after the death of Alexander the Great and the time when Rome began to take over Greece. This period included political stability and advancements in art, drama, poetry, and philosophy. When the threat of the Persian attacks ended, Greece entered an amazing period of growth both cultural and scientific. Democracy began to grow and the western style of government began to develop. As the Greeks explored the world and began to explain the philosophy, and literature and to continue to grow and …show more content…

The Persian Empire, at the time, was one of the largest empires in the ancient world. The Persians worked to expand trade across the kingdom and the leaders of Persia made cooperation mandatory and enforced a twenty percent tax on all of the agriculture and manufacturing industries. With taxing the agriculture and manufacturing industries, they also put a tax on the religious institutions. Although with all of the taxing of institutions, the Persians, themselves had no taxes to pay, which left the taxes to the Greeks and Macedonians. The Persian leaders separated the empire into twenty provinces where they had governors in control (Persian). Philip II, the King of the Macedonian Empire, saw the rise of the Macedonian army and culture, he had a dream of defeating the Persian Empire. He died before he was able to fulfill his dream. After Philip the II died, his son, Alexander the Great, took over his role with the hope to fulfill his father’s dream …show more content…

There has been many theories of how Alexander’s death occurred. Some of those theories have been by poisons, infections, fever and heavy drinking (Alexander 3). No one truly knows how the actual death of Alexander occurred. What we do know is that there was around eleven to twelve days of weakness before his death. With the theory of heavy drinking, Alexander spent the night and day drinking with friends where he then began to develop a fever that just kept getting worse. He then was silently put to sleep (Alexander 3). Another theory was that Alexander drank unmixed wine in honor of Hercules. This left him in weakness, but he had no fever. With this theory Alexander died after much agony. The theory of poisoning some suggest that Alexander’s wine may have been poisoned with Veratrum Album (Alexander 3). Because these cannot be proved they have put natural causes as a possibility much like Malaria and Typhoid Fever (Alexander

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