Alexander the Great

Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who was Plato's student.

Alexander III responded to his father's assassination by reviving the harsh methods of Nicholas I.

He is considered great since he never lost a battle in the mere 13 years he conquered the majority of the known world.

When he was 14 years old, he successfully tamed a horse that none of the breeders could ever manage. The horse, Bucephalus, was rode by Alexander on most of his wars. He fell in battle on the Hydaspes River in 326 B.C.

Alexander spread Hellenistic culture and the language of Koine from Egypt to India.

Alexander the Great's teacher was Aristotle.

Greek philosophy spread after being conquered by the Romans, and then the Romans spread the "improved" Greek ideas around their territory. Sometimes Roman philosophers agreed with the Greeks thoughts, and sometimes they highly disagreed.

The empire did not fall. When Alexander died prematurely, there was no clear heir, and his generals divided the empire amongst them, establishing their own kingdoms in opposition to each other. This settled down to Egypt, Syria, Macedonia and Pergamon.

He died in 1922 at his summer home on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. People throughout North America were urged torefrain from making phone calls during his burial so that telephones would remain silent as a tribute. Bell died of pernicious anemia atage 75, at his private estate, Beinn Bhreagh, located on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island near the village of Baddeck. He was buried atop Beinn Bhreagh mountain overlooking Bras d'Or Lake. He was survived by his wife and two of their four children.

His empire was in the east. Roman influence at that stage was confined to Italy.

He first won a battle in Asia Minor, and executed the Greek mercenaries in Persia's employ to warn others off this service. This deprived Persia of a source of armoured warriors to match the Macedonian/Greek ones.

He then captured the port cities in the eastern Mediterranean, depriving the Persians of a navy which could attack Greece in Alexander's rear.

He then defeated the Persians in a land battle at Issus which demoralised the Persians and facilitated his destruction of the Persian army at Gaugamela. Darius' demoralised generals assassinated him, hoping to cut a deal with Alexander.

Thereafter coordinated Persian resistance collapsed and he was able to pick off the remaining provinces one at a time.

Alexander the Great was the son of Phillip II, King of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He conquered a wide swath of territory in Europe and the Middle east in the middle of the 4th century BC.

Aristotle, who was a Greek philosopher. Aristotle was a protege to Plato, whose mentor was Socrates. These three great thinkers were all Greek, and that is the reason why Alexander the Great loved Greek Culture so much. (He was Macedonian.) That's a common misconception about Alexander. People think that he was Greek; he was not. Alexander was a Macedonian prince, son of Phillip II, and he was influenced by Aristotle.

The main, core culture is Hellenic, Greek, especially that of Athens.The language is the Coene / Koine Greek, whose most famous document is the Christian bible, especially the New testament (Old tastement in the translation of the 70, from Hebrew). The Koine dialect is an amalgam of several Greek dialects but its core is Attic, the Greek dialect of Athens, with infusions of Macedonian (Northwest Greek), Aeolian, Ionian and even Doric. Depending on the area, several other cultures mixed with the core Hellenic to produced new, different Hellenictic cultures. In India and Afghanistan the local hellenic populations become aquainted with Buddhism, while in Alexandria and the rest of Egypt hey come close to the Egyptian pantheon. Serapis, a mix of Hermes and osiris was the most widespred of the new Gods, and not only in Egypt. Greeks also become aquainted with Iranian (Mithra) and Hebrew (Monotheistic) Gods, and the Great Mother / Cybele cult from Asia Minor spreads throughout the Hellenistic world. Sanskrit and Aramaic along with Egyptian Demotic become widely used (depending on the area, along with the official Koine Greek. In Art, Hellenic sculpture, mosaic making and painting spread through the then known world, leaving its imprint in later Roman and Indian and even in far Eastern (China, Japan, the sculptural depiction of Buddha, Buddhist wall paintings in Tibet and among the Tocharians in Xinjiang, etc) sculpture, in areas where the Greeks themselves (Alexander the Great, foremost) never even visited.

As Alexander's empire expanded, the Greek culture spread and merged with other cultures. In the lands he conquered after the battles, he treated his enemies with respect and honor and taught them Greek culture and ideas.

"Alexander the Great", as he was commonly known as, established the capital at Babylon in 331 B.C. (He died at Babylon in 323 B.C.) For further reference, Alexander the Great burned Persepolis in 330 B.C

Alexander was a greek king, who conquered the then whole known world, this was something un achieved by any king or ruler. Put simply Alexander the great is among the greatest Commanders in History. Leadership from the front is exemplified by him. His military victories were devastating.

Alexander the Great was married to

Roxana daughter of the nobleman Oxyartes,

Princess Stateira daughter of Darius III and

Parysatis a Persian lady but there are no details about her ancestors.

His son by Roxana Alexander IV was killed before entering adulthood after the death of his father.

Alexander inherited his father, Philip II's project to conquer the Persian Empire after Philip was assassinated on the eve of his departure for Asia.

Philip's object was to conquer the Persian Empire after he had established himself as Hegemon (leader) of mainland Greece. With a couple of hundred Greek cities within the Persian Empire, it was a good starting point.

Alexander, on taking over his father's legacy, followed the plan, which was to take over the coastal cities of the Eastern Mediterranean in order to take over the Persian fleet, which was comprised mainly of Egyptian, Phoenician and Asia Minor-Greek ships, and so prevent the Persians attacking Greece in his rear while he was invading Asia.

Having captured these cities, he then moved on to defeating the Persian army. With the Persian army defeated in three major battles, he then spent the next few years capturing the territory and cities of Central Asia. This gave him control of the ex-empire from Libya to the Indus River.

Of course in capturing all this territory spanning about 5,000 km, he took a lot of cities. He also created a lot of cities, (naming many after himself - Alexandria) as a way of introducing Greek culture to his new empire and so hoping to build a stable Hellenised region. His early death prevented its fruition, so we don't know how successful he could have been.

They were located in Persia

Alexander the Great crossed the..

* Ionian sea

* Aegean sea

*Mediterranean's sea

*and more

leading a rebellion against ottoman rule in greece.

Alexander's army was reduced after all the series of battles through Persia.
Alexander's army was mixed with the other infantry and cavalry of the kingdoms he defeated. The army lacked a proper order, it was not like the complete Greek army though led by the great Greek ruler Alexander III.
So the army was crushed beneath the Indian elephants feet which the army of Alexander came across in huge herds.
They had fought with elephants in Persia too but not with huge number of herds they came across in India and the army was in proper order at battle of Persia.