alexander the great power point

8/4/2019 Alexander the Great Power Point

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Alexander the

Great

Ruler of the World


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Why the Great?In ten years, Alexander of

Macedonia created the largestempire in the world up to that time

Alexander spread Greek culture,

ensuring cultural diffusion and thesurvival of the qualities of classicalGreece
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Alexanders Empire


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Alexanders originsBorn in Pella, Macedonia

Tutored by the Greek

philosopher, Aristotle

His father, Philip, was king of

Macedonia, and had conquered theGreek city states during his 27 yearreign
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OlympiaAlexanders mother PhilipAlexanders father


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Alexander RulesPhilip was murdered in 336 B.C. by

an assassinmaybe hired by hiswife, Olympia

So Alexander was only 20

when he became king ofMacedonia


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Securing his fathers empireAlexander squelched rebellions in thenorthern regions to the Danube River

In the process of reconquering theGreek city states, his forces destroyed

Thebes, massacring all,including womenand children
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Expanding the EmpireAlexanders forces of over40,000 crossed at the

Dardanelles into Asia,where he declared that thewhole of Asia would be won

by the spear
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The Gordian Knot: the legend behind theancient knot was that the man who coulduntie it was destined to rule the entireworld.

Alexander simply slashed the knot with

his sword and unraveled it.

The Gordian Knot


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Defeating Dariusof Persia

#1: Alexanders forced dispatched

the Persian army, losing only 110men (legend)

#2: Again Alexander wasvictorious, and Darius was forcedto flee, abandoning is mother, wife

and children to Alexander


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Major cities in Asia Minor andalong the Phoenician coastsurrendered to Alexander

Alexander proceededto Egypt, where he

established the cityof Alexandria andwas made pharaoh
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#3: Yet again, Alexanders forcesdefeated Darius, this time inMesopotamia

Alexander wasproclaimed king ofPersia and Dariuss

royal city and palacewere burned to theground

Again, Darius fled Alexander pursued

Persepolis
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When Darius was found murderedby his own men, Alexanderexecuted the assassins and gave

Darius a royal funeral

Ruins of

Persepolis
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Alexanders divinityWhile in Egypt, Alexander

had visited the temple of

Amon-RaThe oracle proclaimed that Alexanderwas the divine son of Amon-Ra and

destined to rule the worldConflicts arose with his Greek soldiersas he adopted Persian dress &

demanded to be recognized as a god
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The limits of expansion

In the spring of327 BC, Alexander

and his armymarched into India

As he conquered

regions he allowedrulers to continueto govern in his

name
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In India, Alexanders horse was killed

'O my son, look theeout a kingdom equal

to and worthy ofthyself, for Macedoniais too little for thee.'

Philip to Alexander(Plutarch, Alexander 6.8.)

Alexander on his favorite

horse, Bucephalus

He mourned his loss

and named a city in

his honor

Bucephalus
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Retreat

At the Indus, the Macedonians rebelledand refused to go any farther

The forces travelled down the Indus

and began the arduous journey backto MesopotamiaHis best friend, Hephaestion,

died of a fever; to consolehimself, Alexander led aferocious military campaign and

went on a drinking binge
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Securing a legacyAlexander made Babylonia the capital ofhis Empire

He married one of Darius daughters andencouraged 10,000 of his soldiers totake Persian wives

He died the following year at 33 beforehe could produce an heir and hiskingdom was divided among 3 of his

generals


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Antigonus

Ptolemy

Seleucus


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The mystery of Alexanders deathAlexander died of a fever at33 but why?

Plutarch reports that hewas had been plagued byseveral bad omens

Some others from the timeclaimed Alexander waspoisoned during the

drinking binge

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