countries alexander the great conquered?

Question

how many countries did alexander the great conquer and which ones?

Answer 1

Alexander was from authentic Macedonia of Greece. He was of course Greek.
He unified the Greek states in a powerful Greek league and created a gigantic Greek empire!
He conquered entire Asia Minor (modern day Turkey), Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq, Iran), Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and reached India (modern day Afghanistan and Pakistan.)
Alexander expanded the Greek language and culture and he is responsible for the creation of the new Hellenistic Greek world.
His work was so successful that Greek became an international language for more than 600 years.
Alexander was also responsible for the creation of a New Greek language the famous “Koine” (or “Biblical Greek” or “Alexander’s Greek”). Koine Greek was a composition of the several Greek dialects (such as attic, Ionian, (Greek) Macedonian etc) and was spread through out Alexander’s empire. Greek became international for at list 600 years.
The gospels were written in Alexander’s Greek language and they were very easily spread through out the Greek world.
And a few quotes from ancient sources:
"There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service -- but how different is theirs cause from ours ! They will be fighting for pay--- and not much of it at that; we on the contrary shall fight for Greece, and our hearts will be in it. As for our foreign troops ---Thracians, Paeonians, Illyrians, Agrianes --- they are the best and stoutest soldiers of Europe, and they will find as their opponents the slackest and softest of the tribes of Asia."
(Arrian, 11.7)
"You ought to have remembered that you are not the attendant of and adviser of Cambyses or Xerxes, but of Philip's son, a man with the blood of Heracles and Aeacus in his veins, a man whose forefathers came from Argos to Macedonia, where they long ruled not by force, but by law."
"Well, here we are in a foreign land; and if for that reason we must think foreign thoughts, yet I beg you, Alexander, to remember Greece; it was for her sake alone, that you might add Asia to her empire, that you undertook this campaign. Consider this too: when you are home again, do you really propose to force the Greeks, who love their liberty more than anyone else in the world, to prostrate themselves before you?"
(Arrian 4.11)
"But Alexander said: `If I were not Alexandros, I should be Diogenes'; that is to say: `If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things GREEK, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the GREEK JUSTICE and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, THE DIVINE AUTHOR AND PROGENITOR OF MY FAMILY , AND DESIRE THAT VICTORIUS GREEKS SHOULD DANCE AGAIN IN INDIA and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos...' "
(Plutarchos, On the Fortune of Alexander, 332 a-b)
{Do not confuse the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia or Macedon (which was the birth place of Alexander) with the modern state of (Slavic/Albanian) Macedonia as they are not related at all). The confusion has started a few years ago because that small state started to use the name “Republic of Macedonia” causing a great confusion with authentic Macedonia of Greece.}
There are several documentaries about ancient Macedonia which you can watch.
An excellent documentary by Discovery Channel (which the user Solun uses a You Tube edited version which completely twists its real meaning!) called Ancient warriors.
Check Discovery Channel site:
http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/greece/greek_expansion/index.shtml
The most recent was filmed by History channel
Taken from the History Channel site (I am coping exactly as it was published).
"Engineering An Empire: Greece: Age of Alexander"
Airs on Monday, October 23, at 9:00 PM
"In 438 BC the Parthenon was completed. This masterpiece is the crowning achievement for the Greek people. Without Alexander the Great, it is possible Greece's Golden Era would have been just a footnote in history.
Tens of thousands would die during Alexander's relentless attacks on Persia and Egypt, yet, his armies carried Greek life, culture and values far abroad and this empire became known as the "Hellenistic" world. Greece's amazing engineering achievements and ideas are still with us today. “
Copied from History channel
http://www.history.com/marquee.do?content_type=Marquee_Generic&content_type_id=51242&display_order=2&marquee_id=51188

Answer 2

Inheriting a kingdom from his father didn't really please Alexander. What kind of hero gets everything given to him? This wouldn't satisfy Achilles or Hercules and it wouldn't satisfy him.



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Alexander wanted to get started conquering ASAP.

He got his first opportunity almost immediately. Some of the Greek city-states saw the ascension of the 20-year-old Alexander as a chance to regain their independence from the foreign Macedonians. By the way, "foreign" is how the Greeks saw the Macedonians, not how the Macedonians saw themselves. To this day, there's still contention over whether Macedonians are Greeks.

Alexander took care of the little rebellion post-haste. To set an example, he completely razed the Greek city of Thebes in 335 B.C., killing most of the population -- including women and children -- and enslaving those few left alive. After that the Greeks were happily united behind Alexander and he could focus his attention on expanding the empire.

He immediately began pushing east, against the old enemy Persia -- which his father never succeeded in defeating.

After winning a battle for the city of Gordium, Alexander is said to have solved the famously tricky Gordian Knot. He sliced through the thing with his sword rather than fool around it. A legend supposedly foretold that whoever solved this puzzle would rule all of Asia.

Alexander rapidly moved on to destroy the city of Tyre ... push through Palestine, Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan ... and conquer Egypt (or, depending on your perspective, "liberate" Egypt from the Persians). In bloody battle after bloody battle the Persian Empire and most of the known world fell to the hero Alexander and his Macedonian

Answer 3

Question already answered correctly.
Solun you really have to pollute every post?What is that hate for Greece you have?
I have friends from you country and some times they stay at my house in Thessaloniki. They are openminded and willing to accept the true facts of history not brainwashed like you. Its a shame that blocked-head people like you destroy the future of your country by creating problems with Greece...

Answer 4

very nice question.He was a voyager and never coutries conquered.

Answer 5

SOLUN u suck! i really pitty u!!!
U r stucked in a stupid idea.... Reading your posts make me sick!
I wonder why u "Macedonians" are so jelaous of Greece???

P.S. you should find a girlfriend! lol

To Solun=> I live in Greece, darling...

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_great

Answer 7

Alexander started going south and conquered Greece which were city states back then!! Here is a documentary on the MACEDONIANS which were different then Greeks!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ek2THOUI1iQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=coBlWC-bav4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9El4kKslR00
To Angelica= Do you want to be my girlfriend??????