- Conquest for Greece
- Athenian orator named Demosthenes tried to warn the greeks
- Didn’t have time to come up with a united response
- Finaly Athens and thebes decided to fight, but it was too late
- Macidonia, king phillape won
- New leader
- Next was to conquer pwesia
- Was stabed by a former guard at his daughters wedding
- His son, alexander immiadiatly proclaimed himself king of maceonia
- Alexander the great
- Tought by arisotole
- Spread Hellenistic culture
- Smart, kept illiad under his pillow, his hero was achilles
- Wanted to show his power early
- People of thebes revolted
- Burned the city
- Killed 6000
- Sold the rest into slavery
- He invaded Persia
- Marched with 35,000 men into Persia
- Faught against 40,000
- Alexander attacked with the cavalry, was very effective
- Darius and xerxes had no blood relation
- Got a bigger army
- 50,000 to 70,000 men
- Knew he was outnumbered
- Did a surprise attack
- Straight at the king
- King fled
- Army fled too
- Macednoian won
- Peace
- Darius offered some land
- Alexander wanted it all
- In egypt
- Welcomed into Egypt as a liberator
- Crowned a pharaoh
- Named a city after himself
- Alxendria
- Also named some cities after his horse
- Continuing conquest
- Still wanted to kill king darius
- Made him great conqurer
- Bad governer
- Eventually one of darius’s men killed him
- Are we there yet
- Continued conquest after darius’s death
- Invaded india
- Only problem was low moral of army
- Army moral
- Faught for 11 years
- Marched 11,000 miles
- Deserts
- Monsoons
- Rain
- Alexander agreed to go home
- Announced in Babylon
- Wanted to unite his empire
- Promised roads, bridges, harbors
- And to conquer Arabia
- He died at 32 before any of this happened
- Legacy
- Married persian princes
- Dressed as a persian
- Married 80 of his men to persian women
- Spread hellinistic culture
- Conqured most of the known world
- Generals faught over the empire
- Generals
- Three generals
- Antigonus, became king of Macedonia and Greek city states
- Ptolmemy took Egypt and took pharo
- Seleucid got control of old Persian empire-no no democracy here
- Three generals
What is your overall opinion of alexander the great?
Was her really special of just a barbaric person who allowed greed to get the best of him
Alexander the great was more than just a barbaric person who allowed greed to get the best of him. There have been an untold many of those in history. The scale of Alexander’s achievements are beyond that. He integrated his cutler with all of the ones he conquered, and attempted to rule them fairly. He had a brilliant tactical mind, to be able to fight far larger armies, and he had the charisma to inspire tens of thousands of men to follow him for more than a decade.
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