Alexander is deserving of the name “the Great” because he conquered all the land also, He was very giving. In document A ,it states “He conquered 11 cities and put them in his name ” Also, in document A he had about “40,000 men”. “This is shows that he is great because he was able to conquer and put them in his name also he had over 40,000 trustworthy men. In document E , It states “he was giving ”. It describes in source D he was giving by saying “He poured the water on the ground performing a miracle”.…
Name: Maddie Swart Hour: 3 Alexander the Great Alexander The Great is a person that interests numerous historians. Alexander was born in Macedonia in the year 356 BCE and died in 323 BCE. Alexander wanted to conquer the world, and he started with the Middle East and Asia. Alexander led an army of about 40,000 troops across the land.…
After Alexander's sudden death in 323BCE, Politically, the huge power which he created became unstable. Therefore, his military leaders…
Was Alexander the Great all that great? Alexander was a Greek born in 356 B.C in a city located in Northern Greece in a Kingdom named Macedonia. His father, King Philip of Macedonia, was the king of this kingdom where Alexander was born. Alexander inherited the throne when his father was assassinated while Alexander was 20 years old. Alexander the Great does deserve to be a great.…
Classical empires fell due to external forces such as the Germanic tribes and steppe raiders outside of the Han Dynasty. Invasions occurred. Moral decline was another reason for the decline of Empires. Weakness was created when empires grew comfortable with their lives of luxury. This weakness could not hold up against outside forces.…
Alexander was nothing short of an astounding leader. He led his army from Macedonia to Asia, founding many towns and conquering many battles (Document A), and as shown in Document E, the chart shows how great of a leader Alexander was, and how impactful he was throughout his leadership position. It also shows how even hundreds of years after his death, people still took inspiration and honored him for the things he accomplished. To sum up, Alexander was such a spectacular leader, that we remember him today mostly for the fact of his impeccable leadership skills. In addition to this, at the age of 20, Alexander's father passed away and the kingdom was passed down to him.…
After he took power, he began establishing other city-states all names “Alexandria” His courage, leadership, and intelligence had made him great. Alexander the Great is the greatest because of his strong actions in the ancient times. Intelligence Alexander had intelligence by having the skills when building and fighting for his empire. The empire that he had inherited had grown a lot after Alexander took over.…
Alexander the Great was not truly great because he was an inhumane leader and his empire quickly collapsed after he died. Alexander wasn’t truly great because he was inhumane to other people and seemed like a bad general, “Ferocious manhunt…30,000 in number, he sold into slavery. Two thousand men of military age were crucified”(Doc C). He obtained 2,000,000 square miles and founded 70 cities(Doc E). However, in nearly every city, Alexander would sell most of the people into slavery and kill the remaining of the people.…
Once Alexander III of Macedonia’s father died, he inherited his throne and took over his empire at the age of twenty. Following in his father’s footsteps, he controlled a vast area of land, from Greece to Egypt extending to the Hindu Kush Mountains. Alexander did conquer over 3,000 miles of land, which is absurd, but his ruthless and sadistic manner doesn’t deserve the honoring title of “great”. Alexander was so power hungry, that his actions became deadly. He would pilfer every town and eradicate any obstacle in his quest for victory.…
Alexander the Great was a villain who knew how to manipulate people into thinking he was the good guy. Alexander had his fair share of good guy moments but overall Alexander used the good side people saw to manipulate them into doing as he wanted. Due to Alexander’s violence and mistreat to the human race he is villain. When Alexander the Great conquered new land he usually treated the people and the land in a cruel and disrespectful manner.…
In spite of the fact that he was pulling together his boundless realm, the Macedonians felt they were losing their pioneer. He began self-love to unite his differed regions with a typical religion, yet he brought it too far with prokynesis. (Prokynesis is the demonstration of bowing before somebody) .Alexander had the general population of his realm do as such. After this, Alexander still held quite a bit of his energy, yet it would soon be detracted from…
The coin with the impression of Alexander the Great was issued by one of his successors named Lysimachus. Lysimachus was the former general of Alexander the Great. After the death of Alexander, he ruled part of Alexander’s empire in Bulgaria, Northern Greece and Turkey. Lysimachus used the image of Alexander on his coins to represent his own power and stature as Alexander’s successor. In the Roman world, Alexander was not viewed as man but worshipped as god.…
Hellenistic period was known as the period of the Alexander the Great after he conquered all of Mediterranean, which included the Greece, Egypt, and Persia. He wanted to bring the Greek, Egyptian, and Persian traditions together by establishing a “single Hellenistic civilization.” The Greek dialect just only used as an official language in the Hellenistic period. A new form of culture was created. This period was known as the heyday of literature, history, art, and science.…
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” Alexander the Great (Great). Alexander the Great was an ancient Greek conqueror who created one of the largest empires known to mankind. Taking a stand in history is when a person, group of people, or an idea attempts to overcome a problem regardless of opposition. A prime example of someone who took a stand is Alexander the Great.…
Alexander liquidation of the Persian monarchy build opportunities fro Greek merchants, soldiers, engineers, ect, and those who obeyed him and his followers could attend in the new political unity based on the principles of the monarchy. Alexander’s followers used force to build military monarchies that controlled the Hellenistic world after his death. Autocratic energy became regular resources of those Hellenistic monarchies and was a part of Alexander’s political endowment. It’s quite evident that Alexander’s vision of an empire influenced the Roman who was the true brood of his legacy. Alexander didn’t just leave a new political view, but he also left a cultural legacy which developed the Greek language, art, architecture and literature which expanded throughout the Middle East.…