Life - he was murdered on the eve of his departure for Asia.
In order to conquer the Persian Empire, King Philip II of Macedonia needed a well-trained and disciplined army, sufficient financial resources to fund military campaigns, and a cohesive strategy to overcome the vast Persian land and navy forces. Additionally, he needed diplomatic alliances with other Greek city-states to ensure support and cooperation.
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The invasion was the project of his father Philip II of Macedonia. Alexander was to accompany him as a subordinate commander. On the eve of their departure for Asia Minor Philip was assassinated and Alexander took over. The plan he took over was to first capture the eastern Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor through to Egypt in order to disband the Persian fleet by taking over its ports, so that it could not attack Macedonia and Greece in his absence in Asia. With this accomplished he could them press on to Persia for the deciding battle.
He established 20 provinces and appointed a Persian governor in each to provide internal and external security, collect taxes and carry out development progress. Darius and his council oversaw them, and provided extra security forces as required.
Life - he was assassinated on the eve of his departure for Asia.
Life - he was murdered on the eve of his departure for Asia.
In order to conquer the Persian Empire, King Philip II of Macedonia needed a well-trained and disciplined army, sufficient financial resources to fund military campaigns, and a cohesive strategy to overcome the vast Persian land and navy forces. Additionally, he needed diplomatic alliances with other Greek city-states to ensure support and cooperation.
To stay alive. His son Alexander lived, and carried out his plans.
Alexander was king of Macedonia (not Greece) and he conquered the Persian Empire in order to become king of it. The empire stretched from Greece to Egypt and today's Pakistan.
First, to gain control of the Greek city-states, to secure his control of Greece, in order to secure his base, then combine the Greeks with his Macedonian army to take over the Persian Empire.
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There were six major Mesopotamian empires. These consisted of the empire of Sumer, the Akkadian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Assyrian Empire, the Chaldean Empire, and the Persian Empire.
MesopotamiaSumeriansSargon the Great and the Akkadian EmpireAssyrian EmpireThe PhoeniciansThe ChaldeansThe Persian Empire: Cyrus the GreatThe ScythiansThe Persian Empire: DariusThe Persian WarEnd of the Persian Empire
Bribing the aristocracies of the Greek city-states in mainland Greece to accept Persian overlordship.
The invasion was the project of his father Philip II of Macedonia. Alexander was to accompany him as a subordinate commander. On the eve of their departure for Asia Minor Philip was assassinated and Alexander took over. The plan he took over was to first capture the eastern Mediterranean coast of Asia Minor through to Egypt in order to disband the Persian fleet by taking over its ports, so that it could not attack Macedonia and Greece in his absence in Asia. With this accomplished he could them press on to Persia for the deciding battle.
Alexander inherited his father, Philip II's project to conquer the Persian Empire after Philip was assassinated on the eve of his departure for Asia. Philip's object was to conquer the Persian Empire after he had established himself as Hegemon (leader) of mainland Greece. With a couple of hundred Greek cities within the Persian Empire, it was a good starting point. Alexander, on taking over his father's legacy, followed the plan, which was to take over the coastal cities of the Eastern Mediterranean in order to take over the Persian fleet, which was comprised mainly of Egyptian, Phoenician and Asia Minor-Greek ships, and so prevent the Persians attacking Greece in his rear while he was invading Asia. Having captured these cities, he then moved on to defeating the Persian army. With the Persian army defeated in three major battles, he then spent the next few years capturing the territory and cities of Central Asia. This gave him control of the ex-empire from Libya to the Indus River. Of course in capturing all this territory spanning about 5,000 km, he took a lot of cities. He also created a lot of cities, (naming many after himself - Alexandria) as a way of introducing Greek culture to his new empire and so hoping to build a stable Hellenised region. His early death prevented its fruition, so we don't know how successful he could have been.