In the beginning, The Ancient Persian Empire was the greatest empire in the world during the period of, 550 B.C.E. to 331 B.C.E. The Greek and Macedonian victories over the Persians during this time led to the “Hellenistic World.” This period ran after the death of Alexander the Great and the time when Rome began to take over Greece. This period included political stability and advancements in art, drama, poetry, and philosophy. When the threat of the Persian attacks ended, Greece entered an amazing period of growth both cultural and scientific. Democracy began to grow and the western style of government began to develop. As the Greeks explored the world and began to explain the philosophy, and literature and to continue to grow and …show more content…
The Persian Empire, at the time, was one of the largest empires in the ancient world. The Persians worked to expand trade across the kingdom and the leaders of Persia made cooperation mandatory and enforced a twenty percent tax on all of the agriculture and manufacturing industries. With taxing the agriculture and manufacturing industries, they also put a tax on the religious institutions. Although with all of the taxing of institutions, the Persians, themselves had no taxes to pay, which left the taxes to the Greeks and Macedonians. The Persian leaders separated the empire into twenty provinces where they had governors in control (Persian). Philip II, the King of the Macedonian Empire, saw the rise of the Macedonian army and culture, he had a dream of defeating the Persian Empire. He died before he was able to fulfill his dream. After Philip the II died, his son, Alexander the Great, took over his role with the hope to fulfill his father’s dream …show more content…
There has been many theories of how Alexander’s death occurred. Some of those theories have been by poisons, infections, fever and heavy drinking (Alexander 3). No one truly knows how the actual death of Alexander occurred. What we do know is that there was around eleven to twelve days of weakness before his death. With the theory of heavy drinking, Alexander spent the night and day drinking with friends where he then began to develop a fever that just kept getting worse. He then was silently put to sleep (Alexander 3). Another theory was that Alexander drank unmixed wine in honor of Hercules. This left him in weakness, but he had no fever. With this theory Alexander died after much agony. The theory of poisoning some suggest that Alexander’s wine may have been poisoned with Veratrum Album (Alexander 3). Because these cannot be proved they have put natural causes as a possibility much like Malaria and Typhoid Fever (Alexander
Alexander the great was renowned for being one of the most influential conquerors of his time. During his conquest, Alexander created a vast Hellenistic Empire but sadly did not live long enough to actually rule it. Alexander’s mission to expand his empire was directly influenced by his father. During the Peloponnesian War, a majority of Macedonia was left untouched.
An era is born due to the accomplishments of a twenty year-old young man Alexander the Great. A student of Ancient Greek Philosopher Aristotle that seized the moment with the passing of his father, Philip II (King Philip) and took charge. Alexander the great became the leader of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia in 336 B.C. Throughout his short tenure of power which lasted 13 years, Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched from Greece all the way to India. During his time in power and several years after his death, Alexander the Great initiated a variety of change throughout.
When Alexander was only 20, he received a full empire from his late father, King Philip of Macedonia. During 356 BCE, Alexander III of Macedon was born to father, King Philip of Macedonia, and mother, Olympia. Macedonia’s military continued to improve as a result of King Philip’s ruling. However in 336 BCE, Philip was unfortunately assassinated, and soon to be Alexander the Great, inherited Philip’s kingdom and army. At only 20, he set out to conquer Persia, eventually expanding his land all the way to India.
Paul Doherty has written many historical works, three of those being around the life of Alexander the Great, and the causes and actions leading up to his death. This book provides a biography and intriguing insights not by what the ancient sources say but what they leave out. “Who—or what—killed Alexander the Great?” The million dollar question that no one really knows. The book opens with Alexander and his father, Philip II, arguing.
I focus on the challenge that his father Phillip left him. "Philip and his friends looked on at first in silence and anxiety for the result, till seeing him turn at the end of his career, and come back rejoicing and triumphing for what he had performed, they all burst out into acclamations of applause; and his father shedding tears, it is said, for joy, kissed him as he came down from his horse, and in his transport said, 'O my son, look thee out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee' " (Alex. 6.8.). He was lead to believe that the cause of His life was to be the greatest leader and conqueror of all time. Alexander the Great's legacy is both far reaching and profound.
Long ago, back into the time of ancient Greek, was a young 20 year old British Macedonian king called Alexander. He was a very brave, dauntless, and generous man to his followers. He had conquered a vast of land and made it his empire. He had found 70 cities and named most of them Alexandria. He spread Greek ideas and culture to the world.
By dividing the empire into provinces that were administered by governors and allowing its citizens to worship any deity they chose, the Persian empire was capable of ruling over such a large population.
Successful empires have similar factors for success, but the Persians had a unique way of growing their empire: treating their targets as guests. The other successful empires always had a downfall because their ruler was either too brutal, tiring, or too costly. Persia kept going as they treated the people they invaded with gentleness. The factors that allowed Persia to build the largest empire of all time are gentleness, respect, good infrastructure, and a good government rule because when Persians invade other cities, they do it by helping them and supporting them, growing Persia more peacefully, building more and more infrastructure that will help Persian’s wealth on food and money grow even higher.
< http://www.historyofmacedonia.org/AncientMacedonia/AlexandertheGreat.html>. " Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age." Mr. Giotto's Site (Penfield).
Even with his fever Alexander the Great was told he had to attend a party and continued to drink. Antipater son found a way to get the poison into Alexander the Great drink as Alexander the Great wine pourer looked away. Then Alexander the Great drank the wine and that’s when, “Alexander cried out from a stabbing pain in his back after drinking a goblet of wine.” Alexander the Great had gotten poisoned, and died shortly after in
Darius III learned of Alexander’s plans to invade Persia and brushed it aside as an idle threat. Little did he know that the Macedonian threat was very real. Alexander made a swift campaign through Persia and successfully became king after Darius died in
Alexander the Great Alexander the Great was an ancient Macedonian ruler and considered one of history’s greatest military minds who—as King of Macedonia and Persia—amassed the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen. By turns charismatic, ruthless, brilliant, power hungry, diplomatic and bloodthirsty, Alexander inspired such loyalty in his men they followed him anywhere and, if necessary, died in the process. Though Alexander the Great died before realizing his dream of uniting a new realm, his influence on Greek and Asian culture was so profound it inspired a new historical era—the Hellenistic Period. Alexander the Great was born in Pella, Macedonia, in 356 B.C. to King Philip II and Queen Olympias.
Have you ever experienced conquering the world? One man did. In his youth, educated by Aristotle (a famous Greek philosopher), and taught by Leonidas II (a great general) to ride a horse and fight. Also, the inheritor of his father’s ,King Philip II of Macedon, massive army that he would use to conquer the known ancient world. Alexander achieve a feat as great as they say it to be, he would defeat the ever growing mighty Persian empire.
Introduction The history of Western civilization was influenced by the Ancient Greece in more than a few ways, for instance, they inspired various achievements that shaped the early foundation of civilization in the west, and other parts of the world. Some of these developments arose during renaissance and industrial revolution, and impacted on various aspects of the modern world including philosophy, politics, education, and religion. Essentially, the Greeks accomplished great feats in these aspects of life, and the Ancient Greek Culture is popularly known as the birthplace of Western civilization. The purpose of this essay is to analyze how the ancient Greek’s political structure played an important role in the world history considering the fact that it had a noteworthy influence on Western Civilization.
In Alexander’s 15 years of conquest he never lost a battle Alexander named over 70 cities after himself, and one after his horse Alexander was trained from birth to be a ruler, learning from his parents He became king of Macedon at 20 years old, causing revolts to break out His father, Philip II had built a strong empire in Ancient Greece that he inherited He conquered the Persian empire, who had been under Persian rule for over 200 years, at age 26 He died before he turned 33