Alexander

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Alexanders Empire
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Philip Builds Macedonian Power

• Macedonia
• MacedoniaKingdom of mountain villages north of
  Greece
• King Philip IIruler, brilliant general dreams
  of controlling Greece
• Macedonians call themselves Greek rest of Greece
  does not
• Philips Army
• Philip creates well-trained professional army
  plans to invade Greece

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Philip Builds Macedonian Power

• Conquest of Greece
• It was easy because more than one Greek city felt
  hesitant about fighting back
• Some Greek cities invited Philip to invade
• Athens asked Sparta for help against invasion,
  but Sparta declined
• At the Battle of Chaeronea one thousand Athenians
  were killed.
• 338 B.C. Macedonians defeat Greece

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Murder of King Philip

• Philip married again, for a fifth time, a
  Macedonian woman.
• His son Alexander was half Greek.
• Greek historian Diodorus tells us that Philip was
  killed by his bodyguard, but some suspect, that
  Alexander was behind the murder.
• His son became king of Macedonia and becomes
  Alexander the Great

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Alexander The Great

• Alexanders Early Life
• Tutored by Aristotle
• Inspired by the Iliad
• Military training
• Becomes king when 20 years old

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Alexander Defeats Persia

• Invasion of Persia
• 334 B.C. Alexander invades Persia with a quick
  victory at Granicus River.
• Darius III, King of Persia, assembles an army of
  50,000-75,000 men.
• Alexander defeats Persians again, forces King of
  Persia to flee.

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Alexander Defeats Persia

• Conquering the Persian Empire
• Alexander marches into Egypt and is crowned
  Pharaoh in 332 B.C.
• At Gaugamela in Mesopotamia, Alexander defeats
  the Persians again.
• Alexander captures cities of Babylon, Susa, and
  Persepolis
• Persepolis, the Persian capitol is burned to the
  ground which signals total destruction of the
  Persian Empire.

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Alexanders Other Conquests

• Alexander in India
• Alexander fights his way across the deserts of
  Central Asia to India
• Alexander conquers Indus Valley area in 326 B.C.
• Reluctantly returns to Babylon and dies in 323
  B.C.

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Map of Alexanders Empire
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Alexanders Legacy

• Alexander blends Greek and Persian cultures.
• He takes a Persian wife.
• Empire becomes three kingdoms
• Macedonia, Greek city-states
• Egypt
• Persia
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