Alexander the Great

Chandragupta was the ruler of the Mauryan empire. He was the founder of the mauryan dynasty. His son was King Bindusara. On the other hand, Alexander was a great ruler. He wanted to be a world conquerer. Of course, he didn't conquered the world. But he managed conquer part's of west Asia.

Alexander the Great - 323BC

Julius Caesar- 44BC

Genghis Khan - 1227

Marie Antoinette - 1793

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yes right Alexander the great died first

It was split up between his generals. After much fighting and culling, they ended up establishing dynasties - Ptlomaic in Egypt, Seleucid in Syria, and a variable one in Macedoni.

The empire slowly shrivelled to pieces because Alexander did not leave an heir to take the throne, and the successors first fought each other, then succumbed to Rome's expansion.

In Asia Minor, where the battle of Granicus 334 BCE which gave Alexander hi first victory over the Persians.

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Principally by establishing scores of cities on the Greek model (many called Alexandria after himself). These cities were self-governing and had temples, market places, theatres, baths and, for the men, perfume shops. He also married his senior soldiers to Asian women to breed up hybrid populations reared in Greek ways. He also allowed Greek carpetbaggers to gain commercial influence. Even the Jewish aristocracy adopted Greek ways, and even had operations to restore their foreskins so that they wouldn't look mutilated at the baths.

Hellenistic is a modern word used to describe this world he left behind when he died - not Greek below the aristocracy, but a veneer of Greek culture, which progressively returned to other ways as the Hellenistic Kingdoms which his generals carved out for themselves shrank from covering the Middle East and Central Asia to Egypt, Syria and parts of Asia Minor.

It is one thing to conquer and empire but another thing to sustain one.

Alexander's empire stopped expanding because when, after a lot of hardships, his army reached the western edges of India, the men refused to continue eastwards. They were tired of conquest and wanted to get home.

They returned to Persia (after a terrible forced march through the desert, where many died) which was intended to be the centre of his Empire. On the way there, Alexander's lover Hephastion died, possibly poisoned, possibly from poor medical care after a bout of dysentery.

The loss seems to have driven Alexander partly insane - at one point he seems to have tried to starve himself to death. He recovered, and devised an immense state funeral for Hephastion, but was never the same again.

Although he was still young he had also received terrible injuries during the various battles he fought on his journey eastwards - including one where an arrow pierced his lung, shattering the rib and permanently damaging his breathing. He had recovered and continued to lead his army from the front, but it was taking its toll too.

When Alexander reached Babylon he caught a fever, possibly due to bad water, refused treatment, stayed up late drinking with his men (a Macedonian custom) and developed an infection from which he soon died. Overwork, grief and much damage to his body probably played its part.

He had no child and no obvious successor. His lesser wife (the daughter of of Sogdian king) was certainly pregnant, and gave birth to his son some months later. His chief wife (the daughter of the last Persian emperor Darius) may have been pregnant, too, but she was quickly murdered. His half-brother, Philip, was thought to be an idiot: he was there with the army but never considered as a serious successor. If Hephastion had survived, he (as second-in-command) would probably have had a good chance of taking over, but he was dead.

Without the dynamic, charismatic leader, the Empire he had only just put together collapsed. Each of his generals grabbed what he could, and they all fought each other. One of them kidnapped Alexander's surviving wife and his son, and later had them murdered. The Hellenistic empire became a number of different, often warring, empires, each of them ruled by a Greek-speaking dynasty descended from one or other Macedonian war leader.

The most successful was Ptolomy, who grabbed Egypt - and kept it. His line lasted until the rise of the Roman Empire. Cleopatra was a descendant of his.

alexander the great became king when his father died in 336 B.C.E

Alexander assumed control of the empire, appointing his generals and some Persians as provincial governors. Alexander soon died of plague or assassination and the provincial governors turned their provinces into kingdoms of their own.

Cleitus condemned Alexander for his achievements compared to Philip's. He later accuses Alexander of trying to sideline him and criticises Alexander for the murder of Attalus (who he murdered at the beginning of his reign). Alexander became hot with anger and murdered Cleitus, not realising what he had done until after and felt regretful.

Cleitus was one of Alexander's childhood friends, but he murdered him because he couldn't handle what he said although it was true. He basically couldn't handle the truth!

Aristotle was the philosopher and teacher who had Alexander the Great as one of his students.

they had elements from Persia until Philip the 2 came.

Armies back then were principally fed with wheat, the soldiers would have likely ate plain whole wheat bread loaves. They would supplement this with whatever they could forage, wild animals, fruits, vegetables etc.

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His main goal can be summarized as "One world, One people, One ruler".

As a matter of fact he wanted people to freely trade and travel/live wherever they want to. He wanted to combine the best and the worst of all the cultures and create 1 nationality where everybody is equal.

These goals can easily be seen in EU and also ASEAN.

EU: European Union

ASEAN: Association of South East Asian Nations

It is remarkable that Alexander the Great was able to conquer as much of the world as he did, with the military power of Macedonia, a relatively small country, and using the relatively primitive technology of the day. If your best method of transportation is horseback, the world is extremely large. It takes months to travel on horseback a distance that can be traveled by plane in a few hours. Messages had to be sent by courier, also taking months, rather than by instantaneous modern methods. This makes it ridiculously difficult to coordinate the administration or military maneuvers of a large empire.

In 327 B.C., Roxane, a Bactrian princess and the daughter of Oxyartes, married Alexander the Grat Roxane gave birth to Alexander's posthumous son, Alexander Aegus and had Alexander's second wife, Stateira (Barsine), killed. Alexander Aegus was accepted by the Macedonian generals as co-ruler with Alexander the Great's half-brother Philip III Arrhidaeus. Roxane went to live with Alexander the Great's mother Olympias in 319, but then was captured by one of Alexander the Great's successors, Cassander, in 316. Cassander had Roxane and her son killed.

Alexander's empire stretched from Macedonia, his homeland in northern Greece, through Asia Minor down to Egypt, and from Afghanistan through to modern day Pakistan and the borders of India.

Both were Greek and master tacticians, skilled in the art of warfare.

The fact that Alexander held his great empire together when he took off to the East was something that baffled historians. Theories suggest that he pulled it off by turning over power to his generals who were also his friends, therefore, he managed to keep the power within the empire.

Alexander died at a relative's farm at Hamilton, Victoria aged 56. He is buried in the Hamilton Cemetery. His Wife Flora Hannah died in a shipwreck of the S.S. Ly-Ee-Moon off Eden, Southern NSW 0n 30 May 1886 aged 70 and is buried at Macquarie Park Cemetery, North Ryde, NSW.

he died on JANUARY 4, 1958 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA

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