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His strengths:

1) His vision and his drive to succeed

2) His leadership skills (This is a man who was able to encourage tens of thousands of men to willingly join him and then march, on foot, for over 20,000 miles as they made their way eastward. At some points, his army/traveling caravan consisted of approximately, 150,000 people (women included, who served as cooks, etc. for the men). Often, many men from the foreign lands they came across were so enamoured with Alexander that they too willingly joined his army.

3) His military strategies. He never lost a battle he fought.

His weaknesses:

1) He liked to drink way too much and would have enormous drinking parties. This is one likely way that he died. (other reasons are probable too)

2) His personality was too eccentric for those people around him after a while. Right before he died, he was beginning to lose the absolute loyalty of those people near him.

3) His interest in integrating/intermarrying different cultural groups with the Greeks did not sit well with many of his native countrymen, who believed that the ethnic people they encountered were insubordinate to the Greeks.

4) His enormous dreams and plans to continue conquering new territories would lead to his eventual undoing. Immediately after his death, his Companions divided up his massive empire amongst themselves.

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