Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great was a Greek from Macedonia as Leonidas was a Greek from Sparta as Pericles was a Greek from Athens. Alexander's father was Philip II of Macedonia and his mother a Mollosian princess from Epirus. Macedonia or Macedon (Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía; was an ancient Greek Kingdom in the northern Greek peninsula of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. Alexander belonged to the Argead dynasty an ancient Greek royal house who were the founders and the ruling dynasty of Macedon from about 700 to 310 BCE. Their tradition, as described in ancient Greek historiography, traced their origins to Argos, in southern Greece, hence the name Argeads or Argives.

Alexander the Great, King Alexander III of Macedon, fought many battles during his lifetime and won almost all of them. Some of his biggest were; Battle of Chaeronea, Battle of the Granicus and the Battle of Issus.

After subverting some of the Greek city-states with bribes, Macedonia defeated a coalition of Greek city-states at the battle of Chaeronaea in 338 BCE, an king Philip II was acknowledged Hegemon (leader) of Greece.

He preferred the bribery approach but resorted to conquest for the hold-outs. He famously said that he could take any city as long as there was a path up which he could drive a donkey laden with gold.

He used bribery to gain control of a majority of cities in the religious/cultural Amphictyonic League which he used as a lever to get his own way.

Alexander presided over a few years of Greco-Persian history. His successors continued to press Greek culture for a few hundred years before Islam replaced this influence in most of the lands he ruled. His residual influence is as a notable figure in the sweep of ancient history.

Aspiring rulers wanted to be as great as Alexander. Julius Caesar wanted to be greater.

He laid the foundation for the Hellenistic kingdoms.

He began to spread of Greek culture which permeated the western world.

The children's names were: AlexanderIV (son of Roxane), and Herkales (son of his mistress, Barsine

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One way he prepared Alexander would be, indirectly, through the Macedonian Army; basically, he changed their formation and also introduced some new weapons.

Philip II, the king of Macedon whose assassination in mysterious circumstances back in 336 had originally brought Alexander to the throne, was a man who had proved himself the most dangerous enemy that Athens had ever faced. Inheriting a kingdom on the verge of implosion, Philip had left it a superpower. The monarchy itself had been centralised, Greece subordinated, and the Macedonian army transformed into a lethal and incomparable killing machine. Here was the inheritance which had enabled Alexander to make his conquest of the world. Demosthenes, who had spent his whole career in a fruitless attempt to oppose Philip's rise to supremacy, appreciated that better than anyone. It needed no god to explain Alexander. Philip was more than explanation.

In conclusion, he helped him by leaving behind tools which aided Alexander in succeeding in his future endeavors.

A blend of Persian, Greek, Indian and Egyptian cultures.

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In the beginning he led troops from the Greek city-states. After each conquest, he added contingents of the defeated troops to his army. Upon defeating the Persian Empire, he added numerous groups to his Greek core corps.

He had grand plans for empirial expanisonism by building a huge fleet to expand across north Africa, Italy and iberia and to build structres as grandiose as the great pyramids.

I guess he would have wanted to just keep ahold of Persia and maybe even look into expanding further east.

Alexander wanted to make an example to deter other cities from resisting his takeover. The extended delay at Tyre had ruined his timetable, and he didn't want a repeat from any other city.

By 44 B.C. (or B.C.E.), Greece had already been under Roman control for over 100 years. It still served as an occasional battleground. For instance, the Battle of Pharsalus occurred in 48 B.C.E. between Roman legions under the control of Julius Caesar and a mixed force of Romans and allied troops (with support from sympathetic Greeks) commanded by Pompey. Taking place in central Greece, it resulted in a victory for Caesar; however, it was a short-lived triumph as, just four years later, in 44 B.C.E., Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate.

because as he traveled and conquered, he realized that not all of the cities could be ruled under one person. As a result of this, he put his friends in charge of a city, and the city governed itself. This comes from the greek city-state

Because Macedonia is in Greece and Macedonians have an unbroken historical record of identifying as Greeks, ethnically, linguistically and culturally since Macedonia's foundation by the Greeks of Argos in the Peloponnese.

Alexander the greats dog was documented to have been called 'Peritas'. And just for the record, his horse was called 'Bucephalus'.

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1. desighned a greek polis

2.Alexander developed a rich respect for the greek culture.

3.Alexander was privately schooled by Aristotle

4. the greek alphabet

Armies stay on alert when there is danger of military action.

Αlexander the great had two friends. Klitos and Hephaestion. Klitos eventually betrayed Alexander and was killed by the conqueror. His Best friend, from the day they met, was Hephaestion, since Klitos was really just the friend he grew up with.

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Darius made the offer after Alexander had soundly defeated him at Issus. Darius had nothing to offer a triumphant Alexander who was bent on taking over the whole Persian Empire.
He had no material motives; his pride and ambition inclined him to accept all challenges and conquer his enemies wholly and definitively.

it is called diffusion or sometime called borrowing