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Why Do I Think Alexander is Called "Great"?

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Why Do I Think Alexander is Called "Great"?

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I think Alexander is called great because how great he was at what he did and how successful he was. Everything he planned was a success and he ended up becoming one of the greatest fighters of his time.

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What Happened to Alexander's Kingdom After He Died?

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What Happened to Alexander's Kingdom After He Died?

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After Alexander's death, his generals fought over who should be the next ruler of the empire. Instead of one owning it all, the three generals split land in Asia, Greece, and Egypt. All these empires later fell due to the Romans taking over the land.

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Proposed causes of Alexander's death included alcoholic liver disease, fever, and strychnine poisoning, but little data supports these versions. According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine report of 1998, Alexander probably died of typhoid fever.

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Alexander's empire is a little smaller than the Persian empire in square miles. Alexander the Great's empire didn't really have borders, but just kept exceeding and becoming larger.

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The Battle of the Granicus River in May 334 BC was the first of the three major battles fought by Alexander the Great against the Persian Empire.

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Alexander the Great was born on July 20th, 356 BC. in the city of Athens. Just like most children in Athens, Alexander was tutored as a child and learned mathematics, reading, writing, and how to play the lyre. He was also instructed on how to fight, ride a horse, and hunt.

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Alexander advanced on Egypt in later 332 BC, where he was regarded as a liberator. He was also pronounced as son of the deity Amun at the Oracle of Siwa Oasis in the Libyan Desert.

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The Gordian Knot is a legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great. It is used to describe a complex or unsolvable problem.

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The phalanx was a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar pole weapons.

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The Battle of Issus occured in Southern Anatolia on November 5th,  333 BC between the Hellenic League led by Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Empire, led by Darius III, in the second great battle of Alexander's conquest of Asia. The invading Macedonian troop defeated Persia.

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Alexander's father was the king of Athens, King Philip the II. He had built a strong and united empire in Ancient Greece, which was Athens. Alexander's mother was Olympias. She was the daughter of King Neoptolemus I of Epirus, sister to Alexander I of Epirus. and the fourth wife of King Philip II. Alexander's dad died from sickness, and Alexander leaves his mother in Macedonia and sadly never sees her again.

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During his stay in Egypt, he founded Alexandria-by-Egypt, which would become the prosperous capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom after his death.