Short Biography of Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great also know as Alexander III of Macedon or Alexander the great he was born in Pella, capital of the ancient Macedonian region of Pelagonia, in 356 BC. C. and it passed away in Babylon in the year 323 a. C. Son of Filipo II of Macedonia, the father of him, was assassinated in the year 336 a. C., year in which Alexander the Great takes power. Philip II endowed him with a great military and intellectual experience, the latter in charge of Aristotle. His conquests allowed him to forge in a period of ten years, an empire that stretched from Greece and Egypt to India.

In this lesson from a PROFESSOR we are going to discover you one of the great personalities of the Ancient civilization with a short biography of Alexander the Great.

Within this short biography of Alexander the Great we see that during the first years of his reign, Alexander the Great dedicated to imposing his authority over the peoples subjected to Macedonia, who had taken advantage of the death of his father to rebel, including

TrAcia and Iliriaque supposed a brief campaign to him during which he obtained the submission of both regions.

Another of the uprising regions was Tebasque decided to take it by assault in the face of such resistance. He reduced to slavery a garrison composed of thirty thousand soldiers and ordered the total demolition of the town.

In the same way, in this short biography of Alexander the Great, we will see that Alexander the Great, upon returning to Macedonia after submitting Thebes to his power, in 334 BC. C. launched his army against the mighty and extensive Persian Empire, war started by his father and which was interrupted by his death.

With a small army made up of some 30,000 infantry and 5,000 horsemen, Alexander the Great constantly imposed himself on his enemies. He toured Asia Minor victoriously (Battle of Granic 334 a. C.), in this fierce battle Alexander was about to die and only the opportune help in the last moment of his General Clito saved his life, Halicarnassus also conquered, went towards Phrygia, Syria (Battle of Issos 333 to. C.), Phenicia (siege of Tire 332 a. C.), Egypt and Mesopotamia, (Battle of Gaugamela 331 a. C.), until take the Persian capitals of Susa (331 a. C.) and Persepolis (330 a. C.).

For the year 330 a. C. It was four years since Alexander the Great had left Macedonia, with Antipater as regent, however at no time did he think to return, for what once conquered the capital of the Persians, Alexander the Great authorized the Greek troops that had accompanied him during the campaign Y he had himself proclaimed emperor occupying the Achaemenid Empire.

Immediately he launched new conquest campaigns towards the east of Central Asia: Parthia, Aryan, Drangiana, Aracosia, Bactriana and Sogdiana. Owner of Central Asia and present-day Afghanistan, he set out to conquer India (327 - 325 BC. C.) harboring a great empire. From India he only managed to incorporate the western part, refusing to continue eastward due to the mutiny of his troops exhausted by the long succession of battles and conquests.

The return of Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great he led his troops back through the infernal desert of Gedrosia, thousands of men died in the endeavor, because the thirst was more devastating than the enemy spears, but from his conquest to the Persian Empire he discovered the degree of civilization of the Orientals, so he conceived the idea of ​​unifying the Greeks with the Persians so that they coexisted in a single culture, organizing in Susa the "wedding of the East with West".

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There are several versions that exist of the death of the emperor in this short biography of Alexander the Great:

• One of them is that he passed away after various banquets in Babylon, where he drank a large quantity of wine.
• Others say that he passed away from malaria
• However, the disease that seems to fit the best is typhoid fever, which comes from contaminated food or drinking water

Whatever it is, the early death of Alexander the Great at 33 years of age (323 a. C.) prevented him from consolidating the empire he had created and relaunching his conquests. Succession struggles were unleashed in which the wives and children of Alexander the Great died, until the empire was divided among his generals "the diádocos”.

The resulting states were the so-called Hellenistic kingdoms, that maintained during the following centuries the ideal of Alexander to transfer the Greek culture to the East.