Alexander The Great Dbq

All throughout school teachers have taught students that Alexander The Great was indeed great but, is this really true? He did conquer much land and spread greek culture throughout Europe but not many people know what he did to his men in order to do this. One way that he torched his men to get what he wants is in Document D when the man went through all that work to get him his hat back after it falling into the water than killed him. He did this because in order to get the hat back without getting wet he would have to place it on his head. Since he placed in on his head he had to get it cut off because it says “he should not allow the head that had worn the royal head band to be safe” (Document D). He did this to show the rest of his men
that if they step out of line and do something they should not he won't be scared to kill them. He also did this to show that he has power and if someone does something that he does not like he will punish them. Another reason that Alexander The Great was not great was that while trying conquer all this land he ended up killing about 100,00 people as shown in Document. Granted that many of these people were trying to fight against him many of his men and other civilians still died. This shows that he is willing to let very many people die in order to conquer this land even if they are his own men. All in all, many people think that Alexander The Great is great because of the amount of land her conquered but in the process he killed many people that didn't deserve to die.