alexander the great
Alexander the Great lived before Christ, but he was driven by a vision of global unity as modern as today. Alexander is seen in many roles in our culture. The most famous of these is being a great general and conqueror of the world. During his short life, Alexander conquered the known world and helped spread the culture of the Greeks. Much of what he accomplished must be viewed in the circumstances of his time and his upbringing. Without these we may not have had the spread of Greek culture or even heard of the man called Alexander. I will discuss how Alexander was able to accomplish all of this in such a short time and the events and strategies that helped him along the way. To understand the events of his life you need to know the man. Alexander's father, Philip II influenced the events in the military and political areas that eventually helped Alexander in his conquests. When Philip took power in 359 B.C., Macedonia was in turmoil and he immediately set out to put the people under his control. Philip developed the Macedonian army and formed alliances with the Balkan peoples. Philip established many political reforms that made his state a great power. He increased the size of the Royal Companions/heairoi, which gave more p
Then in Thebes, Alex marched right up to the gates in order to let them know it was too late to separate from him. By doing this, Alexander confirmed his status as the great liberator of civilized men. The free intercourse opened up from the East relieved some of the economic difficulties, which had threatened the West. A seven-month siege followed, and the city of Tyre eventually surrenders. , Alexander furthered his mission to assimilate Macedonian and Persian cultures when he arranged thousands of marriages between the Greek soldiers and Persian women in Susa. This leads back to Alexander's theme of being invincible and godlike, because he was a fool not to take advantage of this situation. The new cities were placed near enough already existing villages to permit association with the native population, yet so far apart that the Macedonian and Greek settlers could maintain their own custom of life. Aristotle saw them as barbarians, like what most Greeks thought of the outside world, while Alexander tried to merge Macedonians and foreigners together.
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