He took over the task from his father after king Philip was assassinated on the eve of his departure for Asia.
Alexander the Great.
Alexander the great
Alexander, king of Macedonia and Hegemon of the Greek.
Cyrus the Great
Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and converted it into an empire of his own, not to destroy the Persians but to convert them to Greek culture.
He did not 'free it', he conquered it from the Persians it and incorporated it into his own empire.
he started by conjuring the Persians Greece's old enemy.
It was to make the Persians respect him that he adopted their customs and dress; he wanted them to think he was no different to the rulers they'd had in the past.
The Persians were conquered quite brutally at three distinct points in history:They were conquered by Alexander the Great of Macedon who destroyed the Achaemenid Persian Empire and added all of its lands to his own in the 300s B.C.E.They were conquered by the Arab Muslims who destroyed the Sassanid Persian Empire in the 600s C.E. and resulted in the territory becoming prominent in the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbassid Caliphates.The Persians were overrun in the 1200s C.E. by Hulegu Khan of the Mongol Empire who founded the Ilkhanate or Middle Eastern Khanate.
Sikandar is the Persian rendition of the name Alexander. When the Greek emperor Alexander the Great conquered Persia, the Persians called him Sikandar, meaning "defender" or "warrior". It is a variant of Iskandar
in governing conquered people the persian were much more humane than the assyrians.
He thought of them as partners in the universal empire he was establishing. Some he appointed as provincial governors. He married all his senior leaders to Persian women to help create a uniform race.