Why did Aristotle want Alexander to invade Persia?

Answer 1

There are several:

• To provide the squabbling Greek city states he had tentatively united with a common enemy to focus on;
• To fulfil his dreams and ambitions;
• To gain control of the fabled wealth and power of the Persian Emperor;
• To get revenge for Greek defeats at the hands of the Persians;
• To free Greek cities under Persian control

Answer 2

Because Aristotle was a Greek, an Athenian in fact, and like most Greeks hated Persians because of their invasion during the Persian War the previous generation had fought which left much of the Greeks treasures and valued buildings destroyed. Athens was sacked and its citizens bitter. Revenge for this was the official reason Alexander gave for his invasion of Persia that sparked his massive campaign.

Answer 3

He was carrying out his father Philip's planned conquest of the Persian Empire after he was assassinated. The object was massive territorial expansion, with an specious overdertone of revenge for the Persian attempt to subdue Greece 150 years earlier.

Answer 4

When the Greek city-states in Asia Minor within the Persian Empire revolted in 499 BCE, Eretria and Athens, from mainland Greece outside the Empire, sent forces to aid their daughter cities. Being over-adventurous they captured the Persian provincial capital of Sardis and burnt the temples and gods.

After the revolt in Asia Minor was put down, Persia mounted a punitive expedition to Eretria and Athens, intending to appoint Greek tyrants to rule the two cities and stop them causing problems again, and also act as a warning to other Greek city-states to avoid causing trouble. This expedition was driven back by Athens at Marathon in 490 BCE, and King Darius realised that other cities would take heart from this loss and he could expect more trouble - if he wanted to keep peace in the Empire, he would have to fix an arrangement where all the Greek city-states around the Aegean Sea were under control of local tyrants with a Persian provincial governor to oversee them.

King Darius died before he could implement this, and his son King Xerxes took over the project. He sent out emissaries to negotiate and bribe the city leaders to accept this settlement. Some of the cities agreed, the southern Greek cities refused, so Xerxes mounted an expedition in 480 BCE to enforce it. The invasion failed at the battles of Salamis and Plataia.

Answer 5

He inherited the campaign from his father Philip who was in the process of mounting it when he was assasinated.

Answer 6

Alexander the great attacked Persia so he could live out his father's dream... (his father was phillip the second)

hope this was help...

Answer 7

Because they were enemies

Answer 8

because his father was a creep