Alexander the Great

Greek city-state security rested with the ordinary citizen turning out under arms to defend the territory. The aristocracy therefore became increasingly constrained to allow them a say in government.

The body of water that border's Alexander's empire on the west is the Mediterranean Sea.

Why was Alexander III of Macedon called 'Great'? The answer seems relatively straightforward: from an early age he was an achiever, he conquered territories on a superhuman scale, he established an empire that until his times was unrivalled, and he died young, at the height of his power. Thus, at the youthful age of 20, in 336, he inherited the powerful Kingdom of Macedon, which by then had unified Greece under Macedonian Hegemony and had already started to make inroads into Asia. In 334 he invaded Persia, and within a decade he had defeated the Persians, subdued Egypt, and pushed on to Iran, Afghanistan and even India. As well as his vast conquests Alexander is credited with the spread of Greek culture. language and civilization in his empire, not to mention being responsible for the physical and cultural formation of the Hellenistic kingdoms -- some would argue that the Hellenistic world was Alexander's legacy. He has also been viewed as a philosophical idealist, striving to create a unity of mankind by his so-called fusion of the races policy, in which he attempted to integrate Persians and Orientals with all things Greek and into his administration and army. Thus, within a dozen years, Alexander's empire stretched from Greece to the west to India in the far east, and he was even worshipped as a god by many of his subjects while still alive. On the basis of his military conquests and unrivalled military genius contemporary historians, and especially those writing in Roman times, deemed him great.

However, does a man deserve to be called 'The Great' who prefers constant warfare over consolidating conquered territories and long-term administration? Or who, through his own recklessness, often endangered his own life and the lives of his men? Or whose violent temper on occasion led him to murder his friends and who towards the end of his life was an alcoholic, paranoid, megalomaniac, who believed in his own divinity? These are questions posed by our standards of today of course, but nevertheless, they are legitimate questions given the influence which Alexander has exerted throughout history -an influence which will no doubt continue.

Alexander died in 323 BCE, and over the course of time, stories and myths of the King and his exploits sprang into being. Alexander himself was not above embellishing his own life and romanticizing his achievements. He very likely told the court historian Callisthenes of Olynthus what to say about his victory over Darius III at the battle of Issus in 333, for example. Contemporary Attic oratory also romanticized his vast achievements, and so within a generation of his death, exaggerated stories of his deeds and adventures were already being told.

Chandragupta Maurya were the ones who captured them.

In the context of Alexander the Great's life, yet also true before and after, some 'original Greek ideas' are the following: First, strong emphasis on the arts as important in public life. Second, cultivation of intellectual research and study, which in modern times may be described as both 'philosophical' and 'scientific.' Finally, willingness to draw from other cultures for thought and practical life even while further advancing one's own cultural achievements and practices.

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Alexander thought he was divined because, when he was going to pay respect to the other religions he had concurred the priest called him a god, so and so it was just luck he thought he as a god after that.

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It is a possiblity, since his relationship with him soured because Alexander went against his teachings and ethics. He didn't listen to Aristotle. There's a theory that Aristotle might have poisned him, since he had knowledge of plants .

-actually Aristotle died while Alexander was still underage. he couldn't have poisoned him

Alexander the Great was much more of a brutal world conqueror rather than a visionary and a humanitarian. He conquered much of the territory for the glory of the Holy Roman Empire, and not because he was doing a humanitarian service. Perhaps he thought he was providing a service to those whom he conquered by thinking that he could turn them away from their barbarian ways, but primarily the scope of what he accomplished was basically land-grabbing.

He did not do much ruling during his lifetime. Since he was always on campaign and conquering new countries, he left the ruling of his homeland Macedonia to his general Antipater, who made a decent job of it. In all those other countries he never stopped to rule them himself but appointed Satrapes, a sort of Governors, whom he had killed if it was pointed out to him that anyone of them made a mess of it or when any of them rebelled against him. In the places where he did stay a little longer he was usually only eager to adopt the customs that treated the king as a god and dress in the local costumes if appropriately rich and flowing in design.

So as a ruler he was mostly the "off with his head"-type and made not much of a mark. He almost totally focused on being a military commander and was very succesful at that.

After 2,250 years, we just wouldn't know. And over that time-frame hundreds of millions of people of us today are related to each other, so the answer is yes.

Yes, in fact he was the first ever to conquer all of Greece.

Alexander the great was the son of prince Philip of Macedonia.

From Libya in the west, through Egypt and the Middle East, to Central Asia and today's Pakistan.

No Roman emperor wanted to conquer the lands that Alexander the Great had conquered. The Roman conquests in areas which Alexander had conquered occurred during the period of the Roman Republic, before the period of rule by emperors and before there were Roman emperors. These various conquests, which occurred at separate times, had nothing to do with a desire to conquer Alexander's former territories.

Today's Pakistan.

he wore sweatpants and somtimes nothing just ran around nude yeah thats what he did

As far as I can tell, Alexander Grothendieck is still alive. Alexander Grothendieck's birth date was on March 28th 1928. That makes him 82 years, 11 months and 10 days old today. He is now said to live in southern France or Andorra, in a place whose exact location is only known to his personal friends.

Alexander the great's kingdom was split into four major parts. Each was ruled by one of his army generals.

Alexander admired Greek culture and worked to spread Greek influence by founding cities in the lands he conquered. He encouraged Greek settlers to move to these new cities and as a result, Greek became a common language throughout Alexander's empire. Evan as he supported the spread of Greek culture, however, Alexander encouraged common people to keep their own customs and traditions. the new, blended culture that developed is called Hellenistic. It was not purely Greek, but it was heavily influenced by Greek ideas.

Macedonia. It lay just to the north of Thessaly, which is the northernmost Greek region. Today, Macedonia is a province of the country of Greece, but in the ancient world, it was politically independent and ruled by a king.

He attempted to introduce Greek culture across the empire which he took from the Persians. He had not made much progress at the time of his early death, an although his successors kept up a pretence, it was superficial, confined to the upper classes, the Greek carpet-baggers who poured in, and the Macedonian rulers of the successor kingdoms.

He was a Federalist.