How long did alexander the Great rule for?

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Hi, my name is Kaity Fey. i am 16 yrs. old. i was wondering how long alexander the great ruled for, and what his great dream was. i'm doing my home work and don't know the answer. if you know any of these questions, please write back a.s.a.p. thx!!!!!!!!

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2004

Answers

Actualy Alexander did want to unite the world under Greek rule. His tutor Aristotle taught him that it was fitting for Greeks to rule barbarians. He also wanted to spread Greek culture around the world, that is why the period after Alexander is known as the Hellenistic period, after Hellas (Greece) Makedonia is ancient Greek for upper hills. The people who lived there were Greek speaking hill men called Makedonians. Most of ancient Macedonia is in modern Greece and the ancient Macedonians were all Greek.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 2004

Alexander the Great fought to unite the world under the Macedonian (and not Greek) rule because Alexander the Great was Macedonian. His father was king of Macedon (and not Greece) and his mother was from the Illyrian (ancestors of today's Albanians) tribe of Thesprotians. He lived from year 356 to 323 B.C. (years of Before Christ period are counted backwards) so I guess he must have ruled for about 10 years. He was 33 when he died. His great dream apparently was to do better than his father, King Philip. Do not get biased or confused by Greek websites about the origin of Alexander. If the old Macedonians were a Greek tribe this is still not so clear but they surely had made important parts of Greek culture their own. Greeks were good at writing so it was them who wrote Alexander's history but, as in many other cases, it was not them who made it. Many other peoples have used Greek letters to write but their language was not Greek. Archeologists have found words written with Greek letters that cannot be explained with the Greek language itself. This means they were from languages other than Greek.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 2004

Ok his ultimate dream was to unite the whole known world (east and west) under Greek rule. An everlasting peace between cultures and 1 Greek king as overlord. But that never happend, so he never achieved his dream.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 2004

Beka, he ruled from age 20 to 32 when he died. Unless you consider him to have ruled from beyond the grave! But that's more of a tudor thing.

-- Anonymous, November 05, 2004

He united quite a few of those people in death. You have to remember that he spent almost all his life making war, not picking daisies.

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2004


He ruled from the age of 20 to 33. He wanted to conquor the world and discover new lands and people and thier customs and unite everyone!

-- Anonymous, November 04, 2004

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