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Alexander The Great: The Achievements Of Alexander The Great

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“I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.” Alexander the Great was the lion the led his army of sheep to victories across the known world. Alexander the Great was not carried by the tide of events happening, he creacred history. He marched 22,000 miles and never lost a battle against the strongest empire of the time, the Persians. He united an area over 2 million square miles, and earned the loyalty from his men by fighting beside them. Also, the period after him is called Hellinistic, after the word Hellas meaning Greece.

First, Alexander the Great united two million square miles of land and continued to conquer European, Asian and African countries even after completing his father’s …show more content…

The Persians greatly outnumbered Alexander the Great's empire, but he was educated by his philosophers. As a young man, Alexander the Great was taught Greek philosophy, art and science, his best-known tutor being Aristotle, and he was considered a very arduous and intelligent young man. Also, he had lived the life of a soldier, while he was growing up, by being a general in King Phillip’s army. He was born in Macedonia but he did not spend his life there, he spent his life conquering the cities and countries of his future empire, which was most of the known world. In 334 B.C., he took 35,000 soldiers into Anatolia and they met with the Persians at the Granicus River. His army was victorious, they stayed victorious throughout every battle with the Persians. Alexander the Great planned his battles well and used a phalanx formation, a rectangular mass military formation, usually composed entirely of heavy infantry armed with spears, pikes, sarissas, or similar weapons. When the Macedonian army charged at Darius, the Persian leader fled the battlefield. He was able to defeat the greatest known empire of the time, and continued to conquer the rest of the known world, Alexander the Great's empire was the largest empire of all

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