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May 17, 2023: ALEXANDER THE GREAT: A GENIUS OR A RUTHLESS KILLER? (2…
May 17, 2023: ALEXANDER THE GREAT: A GENIUS OR A RUTHLESS KILLER? (2 CLASSES)
born in pella (macedon)
parents: Philip II (the king of basileus) and Olympia (was not from Macedonian)
conquered greece
later divorced
then remarried and gave birth to another child
when the child became 1, they were having a party - and alexande began yeling that his father would disown him and make the new child the king)
Philip dies in 336 BCE - alexander becomes king at the age of 20
336 BCE: conquest of persia
when alexander arrived someplace in persia, he found a really beautiful place
had all his soldiers marry the women there
darius III was killed by his own satrap
bessus
when alexander killed bessus, he said that bessus had no business to become king
took egypt and israel/phoenicia
became a pharaoh of egypt
also takes babylon
takes sousa, then persepolis (burned persepolis)
persians run away
went on a conquest for 10 years
had an idea of "globalism"
wanted to unite the greek world with the rest of the known world
people of greece thought they were glorious and the best
wanted to go to india and china
his army rebelled when they went to india
one of them was called
the opis mutiny
intermarriages
mixing cultures
356 BCE - 323 BCE
tutor of alexander was aristotle (around 14-17 years of age)