notes continued:
peace-
After 2 major battles lost Darius III was ready to give up land to stop Alexander’s conquest.
Advisors told him to take it but Alexander refused.
Alexander’s goal was to conquer Persian Empire
Egypt-
Alexander was welcomed into Egypt as a liberator even though Egypt was a Persian territory
Named a city after himself
Conquest cont.-
Alexander still wanted to kill King Darius III of Persia so he pursued him.
This pursuit made him a great conquered but bad at governing the land he conquered.
He eventually found King Darius dead
After the Conquest-
Once Darius was dead they thought Alexander would stop but he didn’t
He invaded certain areas of India and was successful
His army had low morale at this point
Low morale-
Army had been fight for 11 years, marched 11,000 miles, and all in bad conditions
Finally Alexander agreed to return home.
Governor-
When Alexander had reached Babylon, he announces that he wants to unite his empire by building new cities, roads and harbors and conquer Arabia
He became ill and died at age 32.
Legacy-
Married a Persian Princess
He tried to mix the 2 cultures
After his death generals fought over the power of the land.
Generals
Eventually 3 generals got control
Antigonus- the king of Macedonia and Greek city-states
Ptolemy- seized Egypt, took the title of Pharaoh and began a dynasty
Seleucid- controlled the old Persian Empire, He didn’t take the democratic approach, the rulers had all power
what is your overall opinion of alexander the great? was he really that special or just a barbaric person who allowed greed to get the best of him?
barbaric person because he destroyed a whole city killing 6000 people and put the survivors into slavery. he made his troops fight for 11 years and march for 11,000 miles. towards the end, he said he was disappointed in his troops, but the only reason they weren't doing well was because they were tired because he was tiring them out from marching and fighting for so long.
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