Peace
after two major battles lost, darius 3 was ready to give up some land in hopes that alexander would stop his conquest. The macedonian advisors to alexander told him to take the offer but he refused. alexanders goal was to conquer all of the persian empire.
Alexander in Egypt
alexander was welcomed into egypt as a liberator even tho egypt was in persian territory. he was crowned a pharaoh. he named a city after himself, very common to do so.
countinuing the conquest
alexander still wanted to kill king daruis 3 of persia so he pursued him. this made him a great conquered but bad at governing the land he took over. he eventually found king darius dead, one of his own men had killed him.
Many thought that once darius was dead alexander might stop the conquest but they were wrong. he invaded certain areas of india and sucessful defeat them there as well. Only problem is that his armys morale was getting low.
alexanders troops had been fighting for a very long time and traveled very far
-he fought for 11 years
-he marched 11,000 miles
-in bad conditions, monsoon rains and deserts
very dissapointed alexander agreed to return home.
when alexander had reached babylon, he annouces that he wants to unite his empire by building new cities and roads and harbors and to also conquer arabia.
after making this big promis he became seriously ill and died at the age of 32.
legacy alexander
married a persian princess
he even wore a persian dress and precided a mass marriage of 80 of his men to persian women.
very interested in cultural impact, spreading hellenistic culture
at the time of his death alexander had conquerd a fast amount of lan and generals fought over who would get the power of his empire.
generals
three generals of alexanders army got control of empire.
Antigonus became the king of macedonia and control of greek city states
Ptolemy- seized egypt took the title of the pharoh and began a dynasty.
Seleucid- got control of the old persian empire, made it that the rulers had all the power and people didnt as a punishment to the persians for fighting them for 200 years.
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Yes i do think alexander was a very great conquor cause he stuck to his guns the whole time that he would kill darius. He still had good intentions to make his empire very powerful and he was going to get them organized before his death but he did die. I thought it was impressive how much land he took over and that he was a great ruler. And in the end after his death he still had 3 rulers take over the vast area that he conquerd.
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