what did alexander the great accomplish and why did he fail?

Question

yes i am taking a test right now and im on my sidekick. please help.

its not really cheating becuase its open notes and i wasnt in class when we talked about him

Answer 1

He failed because he chose to cross the great desert in Persia on bad intelligence, and because he got sick and died. He did manage establish the first great empire, but at the cost of a great deal of death and destruction.

Answer 2

Alexander was a great military commander, he had the ability to lead men into Battle, and determine a tactic and strategy.
He was also politically smart, after uniting Greece he knew that he was a threat to the Greek Senate, and the Senate was a threat to him, he demanded to be considered a God and therefore above man and the Senate. The Senate would/could not do this. He decided to launch a campaign against Greeks traditional enemy Persia. He set out with a moderate force and never came back. He managed to conquer the majority of the known world and stumbled into India. His troops were tired and wanted to return to Greece, he began the return but was bitten by a mosquito and contracted an infection from the bite that eventually killed him.

Alexander was never claim a god be the Greek Senate did name him Alexander the great, the greatest mortal.
Alexander was able to conquer but not able to rule. he relied on close, capable men for the governing of his empire and after his death his empire had collaspe almost as rapidly as it had grown.

He failed because he did not know how to make peace.

Answer 3

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BIlbo is correct, he was missing 3 continents entirely and only had small footholds in Europe, Africa and Asia. Truthfully if Alexander had stopped going east with the successful conquest of Persia he would have come much closer (but still failed as he didn't know about the 3 missing continents) since he could have concentrated on Europe and then Africa. Truthfully he couldn't have conquered Africa and for the same reason that Inca empire was confined to the Andes. Jungles eat armies. This was true all the way up to the spanish american war. Guerrilla fighters in jungles have the massive advantage of local knowledge of both terrain and food gathering. Ancient armies would need to live off the land and would not be able to get anywhere near enough food to feed the troops necessary to take those regions. If he had successfully established a dynasty they could conceivably have conquered the world but that would have taken generations and several technological advances. However as was also pointed out by Bilbo, he would have been able to cross the Himalayas though it would have been easier to sail across the bay of Bengal. There is a saying among military strategists. Amateurs master tactics, masters master logistics. While China made many great technological advances they would never come close to ruling the ancient world and the countries that did come to rule the world had one main advantage (besides the gunpowder) and that was canned goods. If you can store up enough food to feed your army through a campaign you are almost guaranteed to win any siege you're in as well as making any long battles go your way as an army fighting is an army not foraging. Alexander had many great tactical innovations but the one thing he didn't do was advance non-weapon technologies (or at least he didn't go out of his way to utilize any) canning is something beneficial to all people but it also enables long term blockades, sieges and marches across empty terrain. poor Alex didn't have these. Later Europeans would divide the world amongst themselves and many of the conquered thought it was the superior weapons (half true) but the Europeans only had those weapons because their populations were able to rise and be sustained by food storage advances as well as advances in agriculture. Larger population means greater chances for a nation to have a genius who makes a breakthrough or just a lucky craftsman that gets an idea (like what would happen if I put the exploding powder in a tube?) If Rome had developed a way preserve food we might be speaking a language far closer to latin (spanish is pretty close but not as close as it might have been). of course that statement ignores the flaws in the Roman economic system as well the horrendous levels of government corruption. Anyhow, good luck with your essay

Answer 4

alexander the great conquered pretty much all the known world at the time: after his father conquered greece, he went on to conquer egypt, persia (which was a huge empire at the time) and got to india.

his first failure happened in india where he wanted to go further (till the end of the world - probably he would have reached china) but his soldiers rebelled and insisted they'd go back. that happened because his soldiers could not understand his desire for knowledge. alexander didn't conquer out of greed (most of the time he didn't allow his soldiers to rob the places they conquered - another reason for dissatisfaction), his conquests were a way for him to explore.

he also failed at unifying his empire. although he attempted to by marrying 10.000 persian women to 10.000 macedonian men, all the marriages (except one) were dissolved once he died. so did his empire - because the countries he conquered had nothing in common so they couldn't stay together.

Answer 5

The true achievement of Alexander was not in the act of the Empire he created, but by the fact that he created the first stable Multi-cultural, multi-regional empire. He also spread Greek culture to other parts of the world. This spread would preserve that Culture and its knowledge when the west fell into the Dark ages.

What failed in his system was himself. His charisma was what held together his vast multicultural empire. After he died, it fractured and was split up and control by his generals.

Answer 6

Alexander did not fail. What an odd notion.

Answer 7

Simply, he wanted to rule the world ... dont know why he couldnt, guess ... because of the persian dessert.

Answer 8

he made empire from europe to asia(accom)

he died without great successors to rule his empire

Answer 9

I don't think he failed