who was alexander the great and what did he conquer??? Need to know this VERY soon, part of a projekt.

-- Anonymous, November 01, 2004

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Alexander the Great was born in Pella at 356 BC, son of Myrtile (otherwise known as Olympiad) and Phillip II of Macedonia. He got in power when his father was assassinated at his daughters' wedding, by Pausanias, one of his bodyguards who was probably acting by orders from Olympiad. He managed to unite by force the Greece cities except from Sparta in a war that was supposedly avenging the Persian invasion in Greece more than 150 years before.

He won all of his battles against Dareius III Kodomanos, against massively superior forces, and kept fighting eastwards against people who live in modern day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and a small part of India, until his troops refused to follow him any further. Then he returned to Babylon from where he planned the conquest of Arabian peninsula, when he died at the age of 32 & 8 months.

During his rule he burnt at least 3 cities and numerous encampments, and built almost 70 encampments & cities, most of them with the name Alexandreia, some of which still stand, with foremost the Alexandreia of Egypt, where two of the wonders of the ancient world, the Phare and the Great library, were built by his successors.

All of his sons and wives were assassinated, but all of their deaths were eventually avenged by some of his successors. His kingdom was divided to Macedonia (his homeland), Thrace, Asia (practically Palestine Lebanon Israel & Syria), and Egypt. All of them fell to the Romans a few centuries later, one by one.

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2004

Alexander the Great was a man, he lived a long time ago in the 3rd century BC. I don't remember him that well, but he is known as the greatest conquerer because he conquered the mighty Persian empire, defeated the Indian king and conquered nearly all of the known world before he was 32. In modern terms his empire included; Most of Greece, Macedonia, Turky, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Irag, Iran, Afganistan, Pakistan and some of India. Thats a big backyard. Goodbye

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2004