Alexander's Empire:
- Philip builds macedonia Empire
- (philip is alexander's dad and king of macedonia)
- invaded greece and WON!
- he was going to conquer Persia, but he was murdered
- Alexander names himelf king at 20 years old
- Alexander defeats Persia (darius III)
- when young: tutored by Aristotle, and relied on the Iliad
- Alexander vs. Darius:
- Alexander is outnumbered by Darius's army, but wins anyways
- crowned pharoah in 332 B.C., he told them he was a God
- Alexander's army moves east to mesopotamia. Darius's army outnumbered him again with a HUGE army. Battle at Guagamela. Alexander used phalanx and won again.
- Alexander continues east to persepolis, and burned and destroyed it
3. Alexander's other conquests
- now reigned as unchallenged ruler of southwest asia
- 326 BC Hydaspes River, deafeats india
- been fighting for 11 years and marched 11,000 miles. So army turned home
- 323 BC army reaches Babylon. Alexander settled there
- Alexander died at 32 years old, never carried out full plans. Fever?
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