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Alexander The Great_3 Who is “Great”' In history there are few people who can be termed “Great” and even fewer who deserve to be called so. Alexander, the son of King Phillip of the Macedonians, was one of these truly “Great” people. He not merely ruled the largest know empire, was declared a god, lead his troops in battle, and conquered foreign cities, his first being at the age of sixteen, but he did it all within a thirteen year time period. When Alexander became the new King of Macedonia, many believed him to be to young to rule. They felt that he didn’t have the experience needed to be their new leader. They had no way of knowing of the many things that he would come to accomplish in such a short time period. Alexander’s first great accomplishment occurred when he was just sixteen years old. At this time, his father went away to war leaving Alexander to serve as a ruler of Macedon. During his father’s absence, Alexander led an expedition to a wild region that is now known as modern day Bulgaria. Once there, he subdued the rebellious barbarians and established his first city, Alexandropolis. On the return from alexander, great, troops, time, king, first, people, new, god, army, way, things, take, something, soldiers, sixteen, rule, person, persian, persia, period, once, military, led, leader, few, egyptians, egypt, during, declared, conquered, city, became, battles, battle, attack