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2007-01-24 15:40:14 · 4 answers · asked by clarissa c 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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His life was fun and his conquest was the ancient world.

2007-01-24 18:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by Spartan 3 · 0 0

His father was the conqueror Phillip of Macedon, and he lived in Mesopotamia for a time while his father was out conquering. He was inspired by the lives of Egypt and Mesopotamia. When he was old enough, he tried to travel to China and India, and after seeing the ideas, he turned back towards Europe but died along the way of a disease. I think that this was the way his life went, but I'm not sure. I didn't use any references.

2007-01-24 16:46:20 · answer #2 · answered by hallucinatingcandles 4 · 0 0

Alexander the Great (Greek: Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, Megas Alexandros; July 356 BC–June 11, 323 BC), also known as Alexander III, king of Macedon (336–323 BC), was one of the most successful military commanders in history. Before his death, he conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks, never losing a battle. Alexander is also known in the Zoroastrian Middle Persian work Arda Wiraz Nāmag as "the accursed Alexander" due to his conquest of the Persian Empire and the destruction of its capital Persepolis. He is known as Eskandar-e Maqduni (Alexander of Macedonia) in Persian, Dhul-Qarnayn (the two-horned one) in Arabic, Alexander Mokdon in Hebrew, and Tre-Qarnayia in Aramaic (the two-horned one, apparently due to an image on coins minted during his rule that seemingly depicted him with the two ram's horns of the Egyptian god Ammon), al-Iskandar al-Kabeer in Arabic, Sikandar-e-azam in Urdu and Hindi, Skandar in Pashto. Sikandar, his name in Urdu and Hindi, is also a term used as a synonym for "expert" or "extremely skilled".

Following the unification of the multiple city-states of ancient Greece under the rule of his father, Philip II of Macedon (a labour Alexander had to repeat twice because the southern Greeks rebelled after Philip's death), Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, including Anatolia, Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Gaza, Egypt, Bactria and Mesopotamia and extended the boundaries of his own empire as far as the Punjab. Before his death, Alexander had already made plans to also turn west and conquer Europe. He also wanted to continue his march eastwards in order to find the end of the world, since his boyhood tutor Aristotle told him tales about where the land ends and the Great Outer Sea begins. Alexander integrated foreigners (non-Macedonians, non-Greeks known as the Successors) into his army and administration, leading some scholars to credit him with a "policy of fusion." He encouraged marriage between his army and foreigners, and practiced it himself. After twelve years of constant military campaigning, Alexander died, possibly of malaria, typhoid, or viral encephalitis. His conquests ushered in centuries of Greek settlement and rule over distant areas, a period known as the Hellenistic Age, a combination of Greek and Middle Eastern culture. Alexander himself lived on in the history and myth of both Greek and non-Greek cultures. After his death (and even during his life) his exploits inspired a literary tradition in which he appears as a legendary hero in the tradition of Achilles.

2007-01-24 16:44:20 · answer #3 · answered by joseph kuah 2 · 0 0

He was a better leader then me ( Hanibal ).

World's best general ever seen.

2007-01-24 21:58:34 · answer #4 · answered by hanibal 5 · 0 0

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