He was never king of the Greeks - he called himself Hegemon = Leader. He finished his campaign to conquer the Persian Empire in 324 BCE after his retreat from India.
Alexander the great helped the Greeks take out the Persians
Alexander the Great became king of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia in 336 BCE after the death of his father. He took over as Hegemon of a united Greece when his father was assassinated. He became king of the Persians in 327 BCE.
His father had a dream to unite the city-states. Shortly after he died so Alexander was his heir. Alexander took his father's dream and tried to unite the Greeks, the Persians, and the Macedonians. He failed
Alexander the great, king of macedon, commander in chief of the greeks, led a big quest against persians. this quest had as a result of him conquering almost the half of the by then known world
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The Persian Wars pitted the Persians against the mainland Greeks. Eventually, the Greeks won after defeating the Persians by land and sea in the Second Persian War. Later, the Macedonian Geeks, under Alexander the Great, invaded and conquered the Persian Empire.
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The javelin was a weapon favored by the early Greeks, such as Alexander the great.
The Macedonian King who conquered the Persians after three major battles was Alexander the Great. Alexander was the son of King Philip II who united Greece under Macedonian hegemony and was planning on invading the Persian Empire (in order to free the Greeks of asia minor who were being harassed and persecuted by the Persians) but was assassinated before he could invade, passing the responsibility on to his young son, Alexander.
Alexander the Great lead the Greeks to defeat the Persians. After doing so, Alexander conquered many other lands and created the largest empire the world has ever seen at the time. He built many cities named after himself (Alexandria), but the most well-known Alexandria was in Egypt where he built a lighthouse 394 feet tall (120 meters). Alexander was one of the greatest conquerors in history.