What effect did Alexander the great have on the world?

Answer 1

He made Greece a major power of the time, defeated the Persian Empire, traveled further east than the Romans who would precede him centuries later, had a city in Egypt named after him that would be the only city to rival Rome and be the educational center of the Eastern Hemisphere, and he is often considered one of the greatest military leaders of the ancient world due to how much he was able to conquer.

Answer 2

He wanted to spread the Greek culture.

Not only did he want to, but he did. His cruel tactics made other Greek city-states too fearful to rebel. By 331 B.C., Alexander controlled the Persian Empire. In the next three years, Alexander pushed his armies eastward to conquer parts of Central Asia. In 326 B.C., they reached the Indus River Valley and India.

Answer 3

Not only did he make medicine but he also:

*was educated by Aristotle

*his troops were Loyal

*he wanted to conquer the world

*he conquered the Persian Empire

*he led his army to India (Indian ocean) but was forced to turn back

*he ALMOST never lost a battle

*he spread Greek culture

*his troops married Persian women to help create one culture

*he died at age 33

*Alexanders empire was divided into 3 parts after he died

*He created Hellenistic culture

--->which influences today's world

Madison Millhollan

Mrs. Heather Lindsey

October 3, 2011 4b

Answer 4

One way he changed Greece was he conquered all the other states except for Sparta. In other words he united all the states into one big empire under one flag because before the states were fighting amongst themselves. Im unsure this is correct but im certain this was one cause.

Answer 5

Alexander the great had a tremendous impact on the world. Through his conquests, he spread the powerful scientific, artistic, and political achievements of ancient Greek culture throughout the centers of civilization in the West. Moreover, he established an unprecedented military legacy that would, for better and for worse, served as a model for future societies and individual leaders.

Answer 6

'Changing the world' is a phrase needing to be taken with considerable disbelief - it smacks of a newspaper/TV headline.

Alexander's influence was on the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. The rest (most) of the world - south and east Asia, the Americas, western Europe, Africa outside Egypt, the Indo-Pacific regions were untouched by him and his legacy.

1. He established an empire in which he began to spread Greek culture. After his death, it was divided up between his generals, who continued this process, establishing the Hellenistic kingdoms, which lasted until being absorbed into the Roman Empire over the next 200 years. They were a civilising and stabilising influence in the eastern Mediterranean, but left the rest of the world untouched, and even within much of those areas the Greek veneer faded rapidly, reverting to old or new cultures.

2. He provided a target to which would-be prominent men aspired - to be like Alexander. Pompey the Great and Julius Caesar both wanted to emulate Alexander. This helped drive them to the conquests which expanded the Roman empire around the Mediterranean and led to the Pax Romanum. When Caesar was assassinated, having conquered the west, which Alexander didn't, he was about to embark on a campaign to conquer the east, which in total would have made him greater than Alexander. In fact Caesar was the one whom people subsequently wanted to emulate - all the Roman emperors called themselves Caesar, as did the Czars of Russia and Kaisers of Germany - both derivations of the title Caesar.

3. Against overwhelming odds, he led his army to victories across the Persian territories of Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt without suffering a single defeat. His greatest victory was at the Battle of Gaugamela, in what is now northern Iraq, in 331 BC. The young king of Macedonia, leader of the Greeks, overlord of Asia Minor and pharaoh of Egypt became 'great king' of Persia at the age of 25. However this effort did not outlast his early death, and his ambitions to spread Greek culture petered out in the succeeding Hellenistic kingdoms as his empire fell apart. So the legacy he left was one of high achievement in his lifetime and a standard for others to emulate. The world went on in its usual chaotic fighting and destruction.

Answer 7

He was an ingenious military leader and brilliant. But he was also ruthless and cruel.

Answer 8

He brought mixed cultures like the one he mixed of Persian and Egyptian culture!!