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In the age of twenty Alexander the Great came to power that was beyond his young age. He was the first conqueror, not to mention that he was the great warrior and leader of the Macedonians. He conquered much of the civilized world were his genius military talent helped him. Alexander had the ambition to create a universal world monarchy. He put the foundation for the Hellenistic world, from
What made Alexander the great famous person in history is he conquered wide of territory in a quite short amount of time. Alexander didn’t conquered with power, but also with intelligence. Instead of steal the countries he conquered, he rule them fairly and put their people into his government and army and this know as fusion policy. Alexander started his conquer the world at age of 20 when his father dead.
Alexander went to Persia for many reasons to complete his father plan, he need Persia wealth to keep the army built by his father and pay off the 500 talents he owed to the ten thousand Greek professional troops, and to Agesilaus of Sparta and to free the Greek cities that have been taken by the Persians some years before. His army crossed the Hellespont, at the
In November 332 Alexander arrived to