Alexander the Great

By Alexis Apgar

Phillip II• Phillip of Macedonia unites

Greece by 339 B.C. through conquest and by promising to remove Persian presence from Greece

• Philip intended to use Greece as a launching pad to invade Persia, but he was assassinated before he could begin his plan

• Instead the invasion of Persia would be left for Philip’s son Alexander who was just 20 when Philip was assassinated

Alexander the Great• Alexander is an experienced

commander and determined to prove himself

• Alexander invades Persia and at Battle of The Granicus 334B.C. defeats an army of 110,000

• He moves into Egypt and is proclaimed pharaoh

• Builds the famous lighthouse of Alexandria

• Considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World

Alexander the Great• Alexander seeks to conqueror

Babylon in 334 B.C.• Persian Emperor Darius fails

to stop the Greeks from moving into the heart of his kingdom

• 331 B.C. Battle of Issus Alexander crushes the Persian army led by Darius who flees the field of battle

• Darius is eventually killed by own troops to appease Alexander

Alexander the Great• Alexander conquerors the Persian

empire and becomes infatuated with Persian life

• Convinced he is destined to conqueror the world

• He conquerors Afghanistan and Pakistan until he ventures into India past the Indus River Valley

• India proves to be more than a challenge • Alexander’s army refuses to go any

further

Alexander the Great• Alexander died in June 323,

Shortly before beginning of the planned Arabian campaign, Alexander contracted a high fever after attending a private party at his friend’s Medius of Larisa.

• Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king and the great conqueror of the Persian Empire, dies at the age of 33 without designation a successor to the Macedonian Empire.