Alexander The Great: A Hero Or Villain?

The named Alexander the Great is recognized by many people across the world. Alexander the Great was a Macedonian king. Alexander the Great is known as one of history’s brilliant military leaders and most powerful rulers. However, he isn’t a gracious ruler we learned about. Alexander the Great was a warfare ruler that used his power to his advantage. Alexander the Great is a villain because he grew power hungry and influenced major cruel dictators in history.

Alexander became the king of Macedonia when he was 20 years old but, this is when his need for power began. Alexander became king after his father’s death. As a matter of fact, historians like to lean towards the idea that Alexander the Great had something to do with his father’s death. Either he killed his father or he had someone kill his father for him. Heroes don’t kill their own parents just to gain power. Alexander showed great military skills and this helped him form a strong army. Using his army he killed many people both on his
One reason Alexander was a hero was because he unified 4 major civilizations and because he spread the Greek culture. However, the only way Alexander unified the civilizations was through war. Its claimed that his intelligent war strategies helped unify mankind, if anything he killed most of mankind to unify them. Heroes don’t kill people because they want to. Alexander is responsible for killing thousands because he wanted to unify civilizations that didn’t want to be unified. Other reason one may say Alexander the Great was a hero is because he brought prosperity to his empire. On the contrary, when Alexander wasn’t present at his empire, the empire had economic growth, education, military, and military training. Alexander the Great was a ruler who used warfare to unite civilizations. There is nothing great about killing thousands to unite them. If the countries wanted to be unite they wouldn’t have put up a