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How Successful Is Alexander The Great?

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How Successful Is Alexander The Great?
Is Alexander the Great, great?? Alexander the Great was born around July 20th, B.C.E. Well we can see there is a “Great” in the name up at the title. Did you know he did a lot of very bad stuff, but he did do lots of great things. He conquered lots of places and was successful against all of them. Philip II was assassinated in 336 B.C.E. People think that it may have been Alexander and his mother, but don’t worry about that example. Read more about Alexander the Great.

Well, our opinion is that Alexander the Great is great. He was attacked by the Persian and he successfully defeated them. Alexander moved south along the eastern Mediterranean. Many cities surrender the Alexander the Great. Some of the men that was in the other armies that they were in, transferred to Alexander’s army. In 332 B.C.E Alexander entered the world of egypt, a country that had experienced on and off periods of Persian rule for two centuries. With Mediterranean and Egypt secured, the Persians were deprived of naval bases and Alexander was free to move inland to conquer the eastern half of the Persian Empire. Alexander had sources of 1 million troops to take over states and cities. Darius III on the other hand brought soldiers all over and even beyond his empire. Persian was on a rampage and Alexander continued to battle against them until they
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The not so great part was married to 3 women, killing most of his men, and as a theory, killing his dad too. Those things didn’t matter a lot to them though. Alexander the Great died by a fever that was never cured in June, 323 B.C.E. He was allied with many cities and conquered many cities. He took some troops on the way. He got lots of supplies to continue his journey and weapons too. Shortly before he died he was supposedly asked to whom his empire should and their answer was said “to the strongest man.” His generals fought over his land and it ended up dividing up into multiple

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