Alexander_the_Great

Alexander the Great Alexander The Great One of the greatest military geniuses of all time: Alexander the Great was born in Pella. He was king of the Macedonians and son of Philip II. He conquered the Persian Empire, which stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to India and constituted much of what was then regarded the civilized world. Alexander's conquests spread Greek ideas and customs in western Asia and Egypt. Hence, he made possible the Hellenistic Age. The ancient world experienced a turning point in its history that would be felt throughout Asia and the Mediterranean region. Alexander's character and skills brought about a new political, social, and cultural order. Alexander was a great war strategist. When he was 16, Philip went away on a military campaign and left him in charge of his kingdom; this was Alexander's first experience of power. While Philip was away, Alexander crushed a rebellion in northern Macedonia. Alexander became the student of the great philosopher Aristotle, who taught him about literature, philosophy, and politics, and he also received training in sports, physical fitness, and warfare. When he became king, he had to pass through many barriers to get alexander, great, world, war, throughout, greek, hellenic, alexander's, philip, military, empire, culture, because, became, asia, western, time, style, strategist, strategies, statues, region, orientals, order, new, men, mediterranean, looked, knowledge, kingdom, king, influence, india, hellenistic, even, customs, conquests, captain-general, campaign, buildings, brought, battle, away, art, age, about, women, while, warfare, very