Alexander III Of Macedon: The Most Of The Known World

Alexander was known as the greatest king who have ever lived on the face of earth he had achieved greater deeds than the kings who had lived before him and those who would come later down the time line “Though the Romans would rule more land, no one man has ever subdued as much territory in as short a period as Alexander the Great, or Alexander III of Macedon, who conquered most of the known world before his death at age 32” Alexander the great was born in 356 B.C. to king Phillip ii and Olympias. He spent most of his childhood years watching his father transforming Macedonia into a great military power. From an earliest age he was set out for conquest and glory in being a king. He then became focused on becoming a great ruler, which he soon
Some Greek states rejoiced at Philip's murder, and Athens wanted to rule the League. Throughout Greece independence movements arose. Immediately Alexander led his armies to Greece to stop these movements. The Greek states quickly recognized him as their leader, “Alexander next turned to consolidation of his power in Greece, which he did by a lightning-quick movement in which he captured Thebes and killed some 6,000 of its defenders. After that, he faced no serious opposition from the city-state” The League gave Alexander many access to military powers to attack Persia empire, a large kingdom to the east of Greece. “embarked on a mission that had been Philip's dream: conquest of the vast Persian Empire to the east. The latter had once threatened Greece, only to be defeated in the Persian Wars (499-449 B.C.); now Greece, led by Macedon, would take control of the Persians' declining empire.” Alexander returned to Macedon and prepared for his Persian expedition. In numbers of troops, ships, and wealth, Alexander's resources were inferior to those of Darius III, the king of Persia. In the early spring of 334 Alexander's army met Darius's army for the first time. Alexander's army defeated the Persians which would bring him fame, fortune, and eternal glorification as the greatest king to have ruled in all of history. The Macedonian king’s level of intelligence, the amount of
“Alexander was no ordinary conqueror: his empire seemed to promise a newer, brighter age when the nations of the world could join together as equals.” The expansion of his boundaries of the kingdom were phenomenal. In less that fivr years he expanded his empire and controlled the vast majority of the eastern European continent as