Alexander the Great

Today we basically reviewed for the test.

First we talked about Alexander's Empire.

The main idea was Alexander the Great conquered Persia and Egypt and extended his empire to the I dos river in northwest India.

1. Philip Builds Macedonian Power

• He is Alexander's dad, King of Macedonia
• He became king when he was 23(359BC)
• he invaded Greece and won because of his strategies and the phalanxes.
• He was going to conquer Persia but he died before that at his daughter's wedding

2. Alexander defeated Persia

• After Philip died Alexander immediately became the king of Macedonian( He was 20)
• When young, tutored by Aristotle, and relied on Iliad
• Alexander VS. Darius
• Alexander was outnumbered by the Darius army but won anyways.
• Crowned Pharaoh in 332BC. He told them he was a God
• Alexander marched into Egypt, the Egyptians thought of him as the liberator.
• His army the moved east to the Mesopotamia. Darius out numbered him again with a huge army
• Battle at Gaugamela: Alexander uses phalanx and won again.
• Darius111: King of Persia when Alexander invaded.
• Alexander continued east to Persepolis(and Babylon, Susa)+burned and destroyed them.(kill, stole, burned)

3. Alexander's other conquests

• Now he is reigned as unchallenged ruler of south west Asia.
• 326BC, Hydaspes River, defeated India(lost his horse)
• Been fighting for 11 years and marched 11000miles.So his army thought it was enough and returned .
• 323BC, Army reached Babylon, Alexander settled there, But he got really ill.
• Alexander died a few days after, at the age of 32