after persians lost two big battles Darius III tried to give up land to try and stop the conquest alexander only one that didnt want it. his goal was to conquer all of persia alexander went to egypt to expand and was welcomed crowned a pharoah named the city Alexandria after himself Alexander still wanted to kill Darius III pursuit was a good show of conquering but bad at governing eventually found Darius III killed by his own men they thought this would stop the conquest. it didnt he invaded areas in India only problem was low morale had been fighting for 11 years and marched 11000 miles in bad conditions, deserts, monsoons disappointed, alexander returned home when he reached Babylon hed decided he wanted to unite his empire by building cities roads harbors and to conquer arabia but he became severely ill and died at 32 married to a persian princess wore persian clothes and other cultural things interested in Hellenistic cultures had vast amount of land conquered at death top 3 generals fought over who would control the empire Antogonius- became rule of macedonia and greek city states Ptolemy- took title over pharoah and started dynasty in egypt Seleucid- got control of old persian empire more dictator like than the other two areas to punish the persians
I believe Alexander the Great was pretty special. He took over parts of Europe, Africa and Asia all in 11 years. Of course he wasn't that great of a governor because he wanted express his dominance over more land so he had to move on to new areas. I wouldn't say it was greed that controlled him so much as living up to his father and also that he knew he was powerful enough to do it with no consequences. He also wasn't that bad of a guy if he even incorporated parts of civilizations he conquered into his culture.
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