Alexander "the Great?"

       The young King of Macedon was named Alexander "the Great" for valid reasons. He is a great historical figure and was a great ruler and conquer. It is true the Alexander III of Macedon was great but what actions built him up to achieve this title? First, some background on Alexander the Great, he was born Pella, which at the time was capital of Macedonia during the year 356 B.C in July. Alexander was the child of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias, his wife. An interesting fact is that Alexander's tutor was Aristole. When Philip II died in 336 B.C Alexander inherited the kingdom and throne, but to assure that this would be the case, he had all his potential threats to his title killed. This made sure that no one would challenge his leadership, meaning he kept a straight path for success. Extending an kingdom from Macedonia to India is not an easy task, it took great displays of military strategy. These strategies were so impressive that they influenced today's lessons in military. This is definitely a way Alexander the Great influenced modern day. A real great action that Alexander the Great would do was that he would actually be on the front lines during his battles, something that many rulers of that time did not actually do! Along with fighting along with his soldiers we paid them all for their service and supplied best equipment for them to use. He also led Macedonia is the journey to defeat Persia and was successful, but before his conquer he took over Egypt, which hated the Persians but was under their rule.  Age 33, 323 B.C is when this legend died of a fever, Alexander's life ended but it was not in vain because he had accomplished so much in his shorter life than many did in their long ones. I believe Alexander the Great was great because of the big influence he had in ancient Greece, and further. He took cultures and spread them around taking other cultures and shifting them around. He accomplished this so young showing us that age is also just a number.

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