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My son, ask for thyself another kingdom,
For that which I leave is to small for thee."
Near to the East, in a part of ancient Greece,
In an ancient land called Macedonia,
Was born a son to Philip of Macedon,
The legend his name was Alexander.
At the age of nineteen, he became the Macedon king,
And swore to free all of Asia Minor,
By the Aegian Sea in 334 BC,
He utterly beat the armies of Persia.
Chorus:
Alexander the Great,
His name struck fear into hearts of men,
Alexander the Great,
Became a legend 'mongst mortal men.
King Darius the third, Defeated fled Persia,
The Scythians fell by the river Jaxartes,
Then Egypt fell to the Macedon king as well,
And he founded the city called Alexandria.
By the Tigris river, he met King Darius again,
And crushed him again in the battle of Arbela,
Entering Babylon and Susa, treasures he found,
Took Persepolis, the capital of Persia.
Chorus:
Alexander the Great,
His name struck fear into hearts of men,
Alexander the Great,
Became a god amongst mortal men.
A Phrygian King had bound a chariot yoke,
And Alexander cut the "Gordion knot",
And legend said that who untied the knot,
He would become the master of Asia.
Helonism he spread far and wide,
The Macedonian learned mind,
Their culture was a western way of life,
He paved the way for Christianity.
Marching on, Marching on.
The battle weary marching side by side,
Alexander's army line by line,
They wouldn't follow him to India,
Tired of the combat, pain and the glory.
Chorus:
Alexander the Great,
His name struck fear into hearts of men,
Alexander the Great,
He died of fever in Babylon

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Introduction

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 Alexandria in Egypt to the borders of India and found a library in Alexandria, Egypt.

Alexander the Great - death:

His friend death Hephaestion destroy him, he lose himself and put every one under the sword killing and oppress. In June 10, 323 BC, Alexander died at age of 33 from fever.

Alexander the Great - conquers the world:

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.

Persian Empire

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 Granicus River, he met and crushed the Persian army under king Darius when he want to cross Granicus. After he started free the Greek cities in south through Ionia from Persian rule so he become the great liberator of civilized men. He turned northward to Gordion there he cut the Gordian Knot the man who unite will be able to role the world. Then he met Darius for second time in the Issus. Even he Persia army was more than the Macedonians but the nature of the field let Alexander win. Then he enter Damascus and arrest Darius's family and took his money. Alexander took al the cities in Phoenician coast. Alexander left Egypt to chase Darius, he found the Persian army at the plains of Gaugamela. The two armies met on the battleground but Alexander again win , he was named King of Asia. He went to Persepolis and stayed there months, he burned the royal palace. He continued chase Darius but he found him dead in his coach killed by one of his men.

Egypt

In November 332 Alexander arrived to Egypt and the Egyptians welcomed him as their rescuer. He received the pharaohs' double crown . Alexander reorder Egypt employing, Egyptian governors. He founded Alexandria from there he walk to the Paraetonium and visit the celebrated oracle of Amon at Siwah. Alexander thought it proper that he must visit it. When he arrive there the priest gave him the traditional greeting of a pharaoh, as son of Ammon.

Alexander the Great - Character :

He was mystical and practical, a dreamer and a pragmatist, handsome and intelligent. He didn’t get Tired in battle. Alexander was fascinated by one god Dionysios , one demigod Hercules , one hero Achilles and one sovereign Cyrus the Great. The Illiad was his manual of war, in his early years he models himself after Achilles. He was like him superhuman hero and warrior and copy the extravagance of Achilles when he was sad because of the death of his best friend Patroklos. When Hephaestion's dead, in this year Alexander's generals try to persuaded Alexander to leave from the eastern border to secure his power in Babylon but he didn’t want to because he should be hero. Alexander want to ride his horse, hold his sword and overpower new place. Like Hercules Alexander can stand pain, hunger, thirst, heat, and big pain with huge patience. His mother introduced to the cult mysteries of the Dionysios. From Dionysios Alexander love adventure. Through the route of his conquest, he reiterate the same journey as Dionysios but backward. Alexander respect the character of the Cyrus the Great, he emulate his example and politics in the time were he was create his wide empire. Also Alexander like cyrus, respected the tradition and religion of control peoples.

Alexander the Great - Youth :

At 13

when he was thirteen, he was quite mature. Alexander's parents care about their son so they hired some of the best tutors to teach him and give him a good education . Alexander started with Aristotle, he give him training in rhetoric and literature and encouraged his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy. His parents decide that he learned enough from Aristotle so they move him into another teacher Leonidas. Leonidas related to Olympius Alexander mother. But he didn’t last becouse he was harsh teacher and Alexander doesn’t care about him. Next is Lysimachus he was his final tutors, from him he learned cultural aspects of the world around him. He enjoys fine arts like drama, poetry and music and learn to play lyre. There is a story that prove how he is smart and it happened when his 13. His father bought horse named Bucephalus that no one can ride it, so Alexander decided to make a bet on if he can ride it or not. Alexander come near the horse to discover that the horse was afraid of its own shadow so he rode it by let him face the sun to keep the shadow behind it. Bucephalus keep Alexander company for almost 15 years, When the horse died there, Alexander named a city after him in India.

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when King Philip was fighting the Persians he made Alexander regent of Macedonia. While is father away he lead an expedition aginst rebellious barbarians where he stop an revolution and founded his first colony and named it after him Alexandropoulos. After this victory he became a general in his father's army.

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At the battle of Chaeronea Philip left Alexander in rule of the left wing of the Macedonian army because of the brave cavalry that lead by Alexander the battle was won.

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Philip was killed by guard stab a spear into his chest so Alexander became the king of Macedonia and he started build his wide empire.

Alexander the Great - Birth :

Alexander The Great was born around July 20, 356 B.C in Pella, the capital of Macedonia. His father Phillip II and his mother Olympias, the princess of Epirus. There was conflict between Alexander's parents so he wasn’t raised in the environment like other princes.

Appearance/Body of Alexander the Great

He have curly dark blond hair, fair skinned and different colours in his eyes, a blue and a dark one.

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