Alexander the Great- notes

1. Alexander was student of Aristotle
2. Alexander's dad was named Philip
3. Philip was King of Macedonia
• Assassinated when Alexander is 19 years old
4. Alexander gets revenge on the people who killed his dad
5. Alexander wants to and does invade Persia and conquer it
6. Alexander ruled world when he was about 23
7. Alexander goes to Troy (ancient enemy of Greece) to start to conquer Persia
8. Goes to Gordian next
• Knot at Gordian (supposedly impossible to untie)
• Whoever untied knot becomes the king of the world
• Alexander attempts to untie the knot
• Takes sword and chops the knot and it unties
9. When Alexander gets to Egypt, he is hailed as a king because Egyptians hate Persia
10. Alexander and his buddies take a road trip to an oasis named Siwa
• Oracle at Siwa, when he walks in, priest greets him as son of god (Amon)
11. Goes to Persepolis which is the ancient capital of Persia
• Once was the greatest capital of the world and is now in ruins
12. Alexander fights Darius at Issus
13. Darius is betrayed and killed
14. Gave Alexander Persia in his dying words
15. Bessus is the one that killed Darius
16. Alexander needs to get Persian population behind him, He does this by going after the people that left Darius behind
17. Goes as far as Afghanistan to find them
18. Many leader have had the ability to make their armies do what is needed
19. Get to their destination before the betrayers and they kill them
20. Killed Bessus, cut out his tongue and spiked him
21. Alexander goes to Tajikistan and is defeated there.
• This is his first defeat
22. There is only Europe and a small portion of Asia and the Middle East. Because of this, Alexander thought that he had conquered the world
23. His campaign does south into India
• Meets fierce resistance in India
• Army is being attacked daily
• Constant fighting
• Suffered mortal wombs (arrow that pierces a lung)
• Hears stories of more people in India and wants to go. But men don’t want to.
• Alexander sees an omen and decides to go home
• After he goes home
• his men married Persian wives
• He married
• Dresses like a Persian king
24. Goes to southern deserts of Iran
25. Comes back up to Babylon
26. Loses friend is accident and becomes depressed
27. Binge drinking, depression, and wounds cause fever and Alexander dies at 32 years old.
28. Has all land ruled under Alexander, now he's dead so they split the empire between the generals
29. Main two divisions of Alexander's Empire are called a Hellenistic civilization...
• Seleucid Empire
• Ptolemaic Egypt
30. Alexander's descendants would rule Egypt until Cleopatra