Alexander the Great

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Alexander the Great

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Phillip II

• Macedonia
• Northern region of Greece, looked down on by
  southern Greeks
• Phillip becomes King at 23
• Brilliant general and politician

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Tactics

• 16 x 16 man phalanx
• Calvary came in next after lines where broken
• Blades on the wheels of Chariots

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Conquest and Death

• Phillip defeats the Greeks at Chaeronea
• He allows Greeks to keep control of local
  government
• Killed at his daughters wedding

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Mystery behind the death

• His wife is named Olympia
• She is into fortune telling and mystics
• The marriage was all politics
• Phillip doesnt love her

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Mystery Behind the Death

• He takes another wife
• Cleopatra is her name
• He has 2 kids with her
• Marries one to Olympias brother
• At the wedding feast he dies

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Alexander the Great

• Son of Phillip
• Takes thrown at 20 years old
• Aristotle was his teacher
• Thebes rebels, kills 6,000, and sold the
  survivors into slavery
• No one else wants to rebel now

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Alexander invades Persia

• Takes 35,000 men to face 40,000 Persians in
  Anatolia
• Alexander wins
• Darius III raises 50-75,000 men to fight
  Alexander
• Alexander sends his best troops to break through
  a weak point and then charge Darius

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Alexander invades Persia

• Alexander then goes to Egypt where he is welcomed
  and named a pharaoh
• Darius III raises 250,000 men to fight
• Alexander uses the phalanx to break the lines

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After Persia

• Marches into India but no farther
• Army is tired of fighting after 11 years
• He dies of a fever a 32 after a night of drinking

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