after 2 major battles lost, darius III was ready to give up so 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 persian empire.
alexander was welcomed into egypt as a liberator, and they crowned him pharaoh, even though egypt was persian territory. alexander named a city ater himself, alexandria, very common for him to do. alexander still wanted to kill darius III so he persued him.this pursuit made him a great conquerer but bad at governing the land he conquered. he eventually found darius dead, killed by one of his own men who believed that alexander would stop his conquest if he saw darius dead. alexander did not stop. he invaded certain areas of indea ad successfully defeated them there as well. only problem alexander struggled with was the low morale of his army. alexanders army had been fighting for 11 years and marched 11,000 miles in bad conditions. finally alexander agreed to return home. when alexander had reached babylon, he announces that he wants to unite his empire by building new cities, roads, and harbors and conquer arabia. right after his big promise, he became seriously ill with a fever and died at a young age of 32.
legacy- known for spreading hellenistic, married persian princess, wore persian dress and presided over a mass marriage of 80 of his men to persian women. at time of his death, he had conquered a vast amont of land, generals fought over who got the power of the empire.
generals- these three generals got controll of conquered land.
antigonus- became king of macedonea and took conrol of greek city states.
ptolemy- seized egypt, took title of pharaoh, began a dynasty
seleucid- got control of old persian empire. didnt take the democratic approach with him, the rulers had all the power.
i think that alexander was a great person, not just a barbarian. his army wouldn't have followed him if he wasn't a great leader, and he wouldn't have conquered all the land he did. i think that he was a motivating figure and people followed him.
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