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| Alexander The Great |
Alexander was equipped with an army his father built him, but he perfected it and managed to win amazing battles including The Battle of Issus against the Persian army. Alexander was faced against 200,000 when he had nearly 47,000, but by perfecting the Macedonian unit, the Phalanx he defeated the Persians and caused their leader and Alexander's idol; Darius III to flee from the battle. This is one of the many feats that Alexander has done.
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| Aristotle |
Greek culture had remained in Greece for years, until Alexander spread it all the way to India and Egypt, making Greek culture the most well known language and way of life during that era. When Alexander would conquer new territory he would not force Greek religion and way of life on the inhabitants, instead he would have Greek administration and building styles. This way he would be able to control the new city-states that he conquered and prevent riots. This idea of free religion was taught to Alexander by the famous Greek philosopher Aristotle. “I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." -Alexander the Great, Alexander had a strong bond with Aristotle, one that was like father and son. Aristotle's influence had great affects on Alexander. Alexander would often have philosophers with him on his campaigns and would send samples back to Aristotle.
When Alexander was in Egypt and settled the city of Alexandria, the Egyptians declared him as Pharaoh for he ended Persian oppression. Being declared Pharaoh put Alexander in position where he felt compelled to go to the Temple of Ammon across the desert. Alexander put all he had at the time into finding the temple, and when he did he spoke to a priest that declared him the Son of Zeus. After being declared Son of Zeus Alexander went to go conquer all of Asia. Alexander made it all the way to India where he believed Asia ended. When Alexander reached India he listened to his troops that he had been marching for days and decided to return back to Macedonia, but instead of taking the quick route he decided to take the long route along the edge of Persia near the Red Sea, when he became sick with a fever and died a couple days later. After Alexander's death his empire was split into three separate empires by three of his generals. These three empire's would soon contribute greatly to the modern world. These are the reasons why Alexander The Great is "Great".
Citations
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Barksdale, Nate. "8 Surprising Facts about Alexander the Great." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 13 May 2014. Web. 19 Sept. 2016. <http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/eight-surprising-facts-about-alexander-the-great>
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1. I found it interesting that King Darius III was Alexander’s enemy and yet he was Alexander’s idol.
ReplyDelete2. My research said that Alexander was taught by Aristotle and then never really saw him much after that.
3. In the part about how Alexander perfected Philip’s army I would have gone into detail on how he did it.
1. I found it interesting how well you stayed on the topic of culture, it made a very strong point.
ReplyDelete2. My research has a lot of the same information but I did not know that Alexander had been declared as the son of Zeus and I found that interesting.
3. I wish your concluding paragraph had been a little bit stronger, maybe you could have offered more closure about why you believe Alexander was great instead of just putting facts about his death.
1. I thought it was interesting that Alexander the Great wanted to kill King Darius, who was his idol.
ReplyDelete2. My research showed that he wasn’t able to control his empire which caused riots.
3. I think that you should have talked more about Alexander the Great’s military strategy.
I found it interesting how you made points that Alexander expanded the empire, and never forcing the Greek culture. I think that was a very good start to your writing. Although my research did agree that Alexander was indeed great, I did not know that Alexander had new forms of conquering and preventing riots. I also found this very interesting to read about. I do wish that it talked a little more about how Alexander perfected his fathers army.
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