Alexander the Great

During ancient times, people didn't really have long names. they usually had one name plus the last name. some people only had 1 name not including the last name. Alexander the great was one of them.

If you were to call him by all of his titles he would be Alexander III, King of Macedonia, Shahanshah of Persia, Pharaoh of Egypt, Hegemon of Greece and Lord of Asia.

He captured the Persian Empire, installed a mix of Macedonian and Persian provincial governors to control it, and introduced Greek civilisation to the existing citiees and the new ones he had built.

Then, just as today, they were tough and ruthless customers. He spent several months of bitter fighting to get through to his objective of India.

So bitter was the experience that on his way home to Mesopotamia, he took the coast road.

Alexander II's most important reform was the emancipation of the serfs and the ending of that system. Although "serfdom" itself was abolished, the former serfs were not simply given the land they had been working for the benefit of the owners of that land. Some of those lands were taken from the owners and put together in communal sites called mirs run by the village. The government paid the landowners but made the mirs repay the government over 49 years. This effectively bound the now free serfs to the mir instead of the owners.

Alexander also Westernized the Russian judicial system, gave more freedom to the universities and allowed some local self-government through elected councils called 'zemstvos.'

He was assassinated in 1881.

isa siyang mandirigma at napatay pakatapos masingahan sa dibdib

Rebuild cities that have been destroyed like Alexandria

That is a great question, although, he did not. He invaded Western India. If those are synnonyms, get a job.

After subduing the east and burning the Persian capital of Persepolis, he returned to Babylon, which he apparently intended as the centre of he empire, however he died shortly afterwards. He was planning to go west to take over Sicily and Carthage so that he owned all the important parts of the west as well as the east, so we don't know just what his intentions were when it all settled down. Capital was not a word or concept in use at the time.

hell no, the Persians won way more against the Greeks. THEY are the not don't get the respect they deserve, because they were the strongest and most advanced army ever to rule. The impact has affected the reaches of the American bill of rights to the sistene chapel

Alexander the Great was Greek. Macedonia was an ancient Greek kingdom in the northern Greek peninsula and is now a province of modern Greece. Epirus is still the north-west state in Greece. Alexander and his father were descendants of the Argead dynasty which originate from Argos in southern Greece while his mother descendant from the Molossians, the tribe of Achilles. Alexander significantly exposed the vast areas that he conquered to Greek civilization and influence.

Alexander the Great was able to conquer part of Persia, Macedonia, and Asia Minor among other lands. He had an ingenious means of military command that always surprised even the largest armies of that generation.

Alexander the Great marched his army into the east and expanded his empire. He understood that if he wanted to maintain a vast empire he needed to indoctrinate the eastern cities with the Greek language and culture.

Alexander proved himself to be more then a mere boy because he captured the city of thebes and destoyed it. Also, he he conquered the persian empire, one of the strongest empires in the world at the time.

Alexander conquered Rome and Phillip 2 conquered Greece.

Alexander the great lived until he was 33. He got sick and after some weeks he died.

Technically no. Although he suffered severe losses in some battles, most notably in his conflict with King Porus of India, he held the field in every battle he fought. However if we count his return from India, during which he lost most of his troops to minor battles and deprivation, it is hard not to put this down to a bad loss.

There is some sensible revisionist discussion on, if Alexander had beaten Porus, with help from the King of Taxila, why did he:

a. Sign a peace treaty with Porus, under which Porus retained his kingdom.b. Cede his ally's kingdom of Taxila to Porus.c. Thereafter act as an instrument of Porus in securing his territories for him.d. Remove himself from Porus' territories, and then go home.Speculative, but the scenario has all the signs of Alexander not defeating Porus - either a standoff at best or a loss.

Comment:

We have third-hand a version of the treaty which was explicit that Porus was under the rule of Alexander and not a sovereign kingdom as it was before the battle. Also Porus paid tribute to Alexander a (undifined) number of chariots and 1,000 of the most prominent people of the kingdom as guests/hostages (Alexander allegedly freed the people but kept the chariots (what did he want obsolete chariots for?). Furthermore Porus was obligated to provide troops if there was a call to arms.

Response:

The validity of that version depends on whether it was or was not a cover up propaganda. We have no primary evidence of this Treaty. All we can do is compare all the evidence and question the gross inconsistencies above, which read like a cover up. I have no firm opinion either way, but a strong doubt must exist to anyone other than someone irrevocably committed to preserving Alexander unblemished. That latter position is not history.

He founded Alexandria, modestly calling it after himself, but it was a regional centre. He did not really have a fixed capital because he never settled down long enough. His half brother Ptolemy ruled Egypt with Alexandria as its capital after Alexander's death.

Well, on his deathbed, his subjects asked him who would inherit the empire, and he said, "the strongest". Obviously, that was not very specific, so everyone fought over who would inherit the empire, so the empire collapsed under no rule with everyone fighting.

Some may say that he is; however, he was seen has a hero who was fair and believed in equality. He might have conquered many lands ruthlessly, but one of his goals was to spread Greek culture.

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1876 is when the Great Famine of India began. It lasted two years and is estimated to have killed up to 5.5 million people.

His story has been written and glamorised by many writers so much that it has moved from historical status to legendary status ('traditional stories held to be true')

In all this, the dark side of his story is mostly obscured - the massive slaughters, killing his own generals in drunken fits, posturing as a god, his overweening ambition to rule the whole world, etc.

He had three wives:Roxane, Statiera, Parysatics