Alexander the Great

The Greek victory against Persia was largely due to efforts of mainly Athens but also Sparta as well. Athens was responsible for the major turning points of the Persian invasions, while Sparta was responsible for the deciding battle. Miltiades, with his skilful battle strategies, defeated the Persians during their second invasion at Marathon, which gave Athens a confidence boost on their military. During the third invasion, when the Athenians were evacuated to Salamis, Themistocles had devised a plan to trick the Persians which had resulted in Persian army without a supply line. Sparta?s importance had revealed during their sacrifice at Thermopylae and at Plataea, where they provided the most effective part of the army.

Aristotle And Alexander was tutored by Leonidas, a relative of his mother, and by Lysimachus of Acarnania. Alexander was raised in the manner of noble Macedonian youths, learning to read, play the lyre, ride, fight, and hunt. One of the days Alexander was 12, he tamed a horse wilder than the others, named Bucephalus, who he rode until the day the horse died. When Alexander was 13 he started learning from the philosopher Aristotle. As payment for becoming Alexander,’s personal tutor. King Philip promised Aristotle that he would rebuild his hometown Stageira, which Philip had destroyed. As well as freeing previous citizens from slavery and reinstating exiled people. Aristotle taught Alexander and other nobel’s children medicine, philosophy, morals, religion, logic, and art. In 340 Alexander had to end his schooling from Aristotle, when

In the fourth century BC, rapid cultural, economic, social, and political changes were occurring in the Mediterranean and Asia Minor as a result of the conquests of Alexander the Great. In 337 BC, Alexander the Third inherited the Macedonian kingdom after his father, Philip the Second, died. Philip the Second has already taken control over all of Greece, and Alexander used the manpower and money from this to expand even further, into Persia. Beginning in 334 BC, Alexander started an intense campaign through Persia, concurring city after city. Eventually, Alexander had conquered all of Persia and forced the Persian king Darius the third to the city of Ecbatana, where he was killed. Instead of returning to Greece after his victory over the Persian

Alexander recognized he could not allow the barbarian nation neighboring him grow to independent so he quashed them with the might of his army. (Doc. 1) It became obvious that the author who was responsible for writing Document 1 was biased towards Alexander when the author wrote that ONLY thirty-four of Alexander's men were killed. Alexander said that he shared the labor with his men and would not have had them do anything he would not do. (Doc. 2) When Alexander took the Persian capital of Persepolis he took the treasure from the palace and burned it to the ground. With this move, he effectively cut down upon the Persian's supplies and stroke a crippling blow to the moral of Persia's army. (Doc. 4) When Alexander and his forces were marching through a desert one of his men found a little bit of water and offered it to Alexander, when he took it he promptly dumped it all on the ground so that he could suffer along with his

However, Alexander was also extremely fortunate to follow up on his success in battle with great rewards. After the battle of Issus, Alexander was able to seize the Persian treasury which was being stored in Damascus. The seizing of your enemy’s material wealth is of utmost importance in conducting warfare and perfectly reflected Alexander’s strategic objectives. It prevented Darius from quickly

Darius’ troops under Datis and Artapherrnes, which included Ionians and other subject peoples as well as Persians, captured several island towns and took Eretrea on Euboea by treachery. The fleet then crossed the narrow strait from Euboea to the Greek mainland and disembarked about 25000 men, both cavalry and infantry, on the beach at Marathon in northeastern Attica. Here there was fine shelving sand that would make it easy to haul up the large Persian warships and disembarked their horses. Hippias, the tyrant of Athens who had been exiled in 510 BC accompanied the Persians. His “inside information” was obviously useful. The location also provided natural protection on the landward side, an easy line of retreat by sea, and good grazing for the Persians’ horses.

Alexander was a good general, he won lots of wars, and had great strategies. The article states,”He realized that he could not cross at the point… When Alexander saw this, he[decided] move his troops in all different directions so that Porus would keep puzzled,”(Arrianus, Document B). Alexander had a good idea, if Porus and Alexander went head on head it would be even but, if Alexander could attack Porus from all different sides he has an advantage. The article says,”At night he would take most of his cavalry to various points along the river bank where he would create a clamour, raise the war cry and produce all other such noises as would come from men preparing to cross river,”(Arrianus, Document B). Alexander made the noise so Puros would get his men ready for war but, Alexander figured out Porus movements, and he could then send his troops to attack Porus. Alexander was a great conquer because he had so many great strategies when he went into war, helping him expand his vast

Alexander the Great The famous Aristotle taught Alexander academic subjects, politics, sports, and warfare. Alexander was born 300 years before Jesus, 356 BCE Macedonia. He was 20 years old when he invaded the Persian Empire.

Upon hearing of Darius's death, the Macedonian army assumed that the expedition was over and the war won, but Alexander insisted on pushing farther east. Here he faced a formidable opponent in Spitamenes, who possessed a smaller army but continued harassing Alexander and even slaughtered a Macedonian unit after Alexander underestimated him. Spitamenes was ultimately defeated, the rebellion fell apart, and Alexander went on to conquer the Paraetacene territory. In the Far East, Alexander founded a large number of cities that would contribute to the expansion of Greek culture.

Alexander the Great was born to King Phillip II of Macedonia and Princess Olympias of Epirus (Alexander the Great). Even though Alexander’s father was not around a lot, he still received plenty of support from his mother and received the best tutoring. Alexander’s first tutor, Leonidas of Epirus, was hired to teach him math, horsemanship, and archery, but struggled to control the rebellious spirit of Alexander. His next tutor Lysimachus used roleplaying to get Alexander’s attention, with Alexander’s favorite character being Achilles. His last tutor, hired by King Philip II himself, was Aristotle who taught Alexander and a few close friends philosophy, poetry, science, politics, and drama. Aristotle also took note of Alexander’s wish to

Alexander was given the power to raise to troops from the mainland to make war with Persia which was the one of the most powerful nations at the time. Although he was given the leadership, not all the Greek city-states supported him. Thebes in particular had no interest in supporting because of their opinions of Macedonian rule in general. Many of the Thebans were bitter about the previous treatment they had received from Alexander’s father King Philip II. “When Philip conquered all of Greece in 338 B.C.E, he treated some cities more harshly than others.

The first battle, known as the Battle of Granicus, against the Persians was a success and ended with their surrender of their capitol. The army then followed their leader and crossed Taurus into Cilicia in 333 BC then to Syria. Darius’s army was decently larger than the one of Alexanders and pushed Alexander’s army back to Cilicia but it is there were he would defeated Darius at the city of Issus but Darius would flee. Soon the army proceeded to conquer Syria, Levant, then Tyre but it did not come easy. Alexander is angered by the difficulty of the battle and orders his men to execute of all men of military age and for the women and children to be sold into slavery. After Trye Alexander headed to the resistance at Gaza where he would find that it is heavily fortified and difficult to get in. The stronghold so fortified it took Alexanders army four attempts to finally break it and ordered the people of Gaza the same fate as those of Trye. After this battle Alexander gathers his army and continues on his conquering

Alexander the Great, Son of Philip ii of Macedon , student of Aristotle, is widely considered one of history’s most military commanders, due to him being unprecedented in battle and his conquest of the previously known persian territory. He lived from 356 B.C.E. till 323 B.C.E.. Alexander took the persian’s territory due his obsession with their culture, though the same cannot be said for his conquest of Egypt. If he had his way, Alexander's army would’ve conquered all the way till China and maybe more, but his army of over eighteen years, had had enough travel on weary feet and wished for the comfort of home.

This battle was important in showing Alexander’s success against the Persian army. He gained this success by attacking the king of Persia himself and causing him to retreat. After this, Alexander blockaded Tyre with the intent to conquer. This attack was extremely brutal and was described by Plutarch as one that was, “performed with so much vigour that the Tyrians retired, and the town was carried that very day.” (Plutarch) Once he conquered Tyre, Alexander was faced with the reality of the amount of men he lost and became so infuriated that he obliterated half of the city. The lack of these details from Stone’s rendition of Alexander’s life causes a failure in the development of his merciless and remorseless attitude.

Alexander the Great left him home in Macedonia in 336 BC with the goal of conquering all of Persia after the death of his father. Alexander the Great traveled north and defeated the Persians who were led by Memnon a Greek mercenary at the Battle of River Granicus. He defeated Memnon another time at Halicarnassus along the coast of Asia Minor. The kIng of Macedonia, Darius, constantly underestimated Alexander's skill in battle causing Alexander to have upset wins. He was winning so many battles and was making progress towards his goal. This made