invasion of persia
= alexander was not ready to invafe persia
- he marched with 35,000 men to attack persia
- persian rushed 40,000 men to meet alex at anatolia
- alex deided to atack first and with his cavalary defetrd the persiansa
- the victory alarmed the persian king, darius 3rd
- his response was to get a bigger army
- akex know he was outnumbered so he called surprise atack with his best troops and ordered them to attch the king,
- the king fled when he found out that weer coming lost alot of his army
peace?
_ after two major battles lost, darius 3rd ws ready to give up so lanf in hopes that alex would stop
- the macedonian advisors to alex told him totake offer but alex didnt
- alex goal wsas to take over all of the persian emprire
alex in egypt
- alex was welcomed into egypt as a liberator even throught egypt was a persian territoy
- was even crowned a pharoah
- he named a city alexandria after very common for him slef to do
the conquest
- he still wanted to kill king darius 3rd pf persia so he purued him
- this pursuit made him a great conguered but bad at governing the land he conqueered
- he eventually found king dariurs dead one of his own men killed him
are we there yet?
- many thoguht that once darius was dead alex might stop the conquest, they were wrong
- he invaded ceriain areas of india and successful defear them there as well
- only problem alex struggled with was the low morale of his army
low morale
- alex troops had been fighting for a very long time and travled far
- fought 11 year
- marched 11,000 miles
- bad conditions, deserts and even mansoon rains
very disaponnited alex agreed to return home
when alex had reached babylong he annoounced that he wants to unite his empire by building new cities, roads and harbors and conquer arabia
- after his big promisies or vows this era
he became serierily ill with fever and died at age 32
Legacy
- married a persian princess
- he even wore persian dress and persided over mass marraiage of 80 of his mean to persian woman
- very intresrtion cultural impact= spreading hellenistic culture
- at the time of his death , alex had conquuereed a vast amount of land
generals
- eventully these three generals of alexander got contoral conquered lanf
- antigonus - became the king of macedonia and took control of the greek city
ptolemy - seized egypt, took the title of pharaoh and began dynast
seleucid -got control og the old persian empire he didnt take the democratitic approacj with him rulers had all the power not the poeple
what is your overall opinin of alex the geat was he really that special or jusr a barbaric person who allowed greed to get the best of him
i think the alex was just a barbaric person who did let the greed get to him. he didnt keep fighting when they wanted to make peace he had to fight tillthe king died. he could have stoped along time ago, but he thoguth he had to keep going. He didnt need ant more land he ruled plenty of land. he had to much power and everyone didnt like him. he made his army fight and fight even if they had all they needed
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