Alexander The Great Accomplishments

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Alexander the Great is considered the Greatest, because he has never been defeated in a battle. Alexander is still considered one of the most successful military leaders in history. Even though Alexander the Great is a legend, he still has ton of accomplishments and the impact after his death. When Alexanders father was assassinated during the invasion on the Persian empire that’s when he became king Alexander. Further more into the next paragraph we will be talking about how Alexander made all of those accomplishments,
There are so many things that Alexander the Great has accomplished and one of them is when Alexander was the king of Macedonia and how he conquered an empire that was from Balkans to modern–Pakistan. As at the fight of Issus,

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