Alexander_the_Great

Alexander the Great Alexander the Great By: Lynn E-mail: moninghoff@yhoo.com 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. Not only did he do all of this, but also it was done within thirteen years. 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 regent of Macedon. During his father’s absence, Alexander led an expedition to a wild region that is now alexander, great, troops, time, king, first, people, new, military, god, army, years, within, way, thirteen, things, take, something, soldiers, sixteen, rule, platoon, person, persian, persia, period, once, led, leader, few, egyptians, egypt, during, declared, conquered, city, became, battles, battle, attack, alexander’s, accomplishment, accomplish, young, year, wwwmrdowlingscom, winning, wild, welcomed, water, war