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    Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar Macedonian king‚ Alexander the Great and Roman general‚ Julius Caesar‚ transformed themselves into personalities which are known to the world till date. Every human being is unique and cannot be a carbon copy of another. But even though they lived in different times of history‚ they had plenty of similarities. It is an ultimate compliment for both of them to have comparable characteristics. Alexander and Caesar were congruent with respect to the results and

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    this time. Therefore‚ the only reasonable explanation would be that Alexander the Great had been the first to witness a UFO. While there were most likely hundreds of alien witnesses between these times‚ the next recorded UFO sighting was on October 11‚ 1492. It occurred when Christopher Columbus and Pedro Gutierrez were on board the Santa Maria. They saw a flashing light that bobbed up and down throughout the night and moved with great speed. After this‚ the alien sightings slowed down until around the

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    The Genius of Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon‚ widely known as Alexander the Great‚ is opinioned by some people to have been a ruthless man who only had a thirst for conquest ‚ but according to others he was a man of intellect and “statesmanlike vision” (Hammond Preface). In N.G.L. Hammond’s book The Genius of Alexander the Great‚ as stated in the preface‚ he tries to refrain from writing based on his own opinion of Alexander‚ and instead analyzes the few surviving narratives on Alexander’s

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    Alexander the Great Alexander the Great Introduction Freeman (2011) narrates that Alexander the Great was a Macedonian King who lived from 356 BC to 323 BC. His parents were Queen Olympia and King Philip. Aristotle‚ the philosopher‚ tutored the young Alexander until he attained the age of 16 years. After his father was assassinated‚ Alexander was elevated to the throne of kingship in 336 BC as his late father’s successor. He was lucky to inherit an experienced army and a strong kingdom

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    The Life of Alexander the Great At the age of twenty years old‚ Alexander’s reign of the Macedonian throne began in 336 B.C. following the death of his father‚ Philip II. Olympias‚ Alexander’s mom‚ was thought to have assassinated her own husband so that the throne would be prepared for her son. When Alexander became King‚ he wanted to do great things so that everyone would know that he is King. From the beginning of his reign‚ he always had a passion for fighting and winning wars. He also noticed

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    classic literatures‚ Plutarch gives us his view of women and the roles they played back in his time. He illustrates how caring and encouraging‚ how determined‚ powerful and manipulative women can be. But this is only relative to the roles that women play in their personal and social life. The first example of how Cornelia is illustrated as a caring mother‚ the read says she take “upon herself all the care of the household and the education of her children.” Also‚ Plutarch illustrates how women

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    There’s no question about Alexander’s military intelligence or even greatness‚ He’s actually named after it‚ Alexander the Great. However‚ he was stuck down at a young age by malaria. It wouldn’t be hard to wonder what would have happened if he had lived longer. In order to come to a conclusion‚ Alexander’s life must be researched and truly focus on the last few years of it. This would pinpoint how things were unraveling for him. Kegan you should identify who this is for the reader pointed out

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    Alexander The Great: Conqueror and Legacy of Ancient Greece Devin Dimattia HIS 301 Greece Research Paper All throughout Ancient Greece‚ there were many great influential legacies. Some were philosophers‚ such as Aristotle and Plato‚ and some were mathematicians‚ like Archimedes. However‚ there was Alexander the Great‚ who became king of Macedonia and was one of the most successful military commanders in history since he sustained abundant accomplishments. He was undefeated in

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    military power.” However‚ a successful emperor‚ such as Alexander the Great‚ Ashoka‚ and Han Wudi‚ did not gain the political control of the conquered regions through military force‚ but adopted more complicated and efficient methods such as controlling or eliciting peoples’s thoughts through education‚ making strict laws and assimilation—adapting cultures of conquered areas as well as diffusing its own culture

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    Kerensky Early life and activism Alexander Kerensky was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) on the Volga River on 2 May 1881. His father‚ Fyodor Kerensky‚ was a teacher. and director of the local gymnasium. His mother‚ Nadezhda née Adler‚ was the daughter of a nobleman‚ Alexander Adler‚ head of the Topographical Bureau of the Kazan Military District. Kerensky’s father was the teacher of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin); members of the Kerensky and Ulyanov families were friends. In 1889‚ when Kerensky

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