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Alexander the Great Debate YES Foundations Ch 5 Alexander the Great Debate YES Foundations Ch 5 Did Alexander the Great deserve the distinction of being called “Great”? http://www.helium.com/debates/239609-alexander-the-great-military-genius-or-murderous- madman/side_by_side?page=1 Why is the Macedonian General and King, After the assassination of his father in 336 Alexander the Great, so great? An BC at his daughter’s wedding, Alexander intriguing question to say the least and one acquired the throne and set plans to take that can be answered revenge for his father’s death. by his sheer military His father’s death left him with genius. He alone a goal that set his sights on a pulled all of the Greek glory never achieved in man power he could ancient times. He set his and single handedly sights on the conquest of the conquered the Persian enemies of the Greeks, the Empire, the Egyptians, Persians. He spent two years and formed the largest planning and gathering empire the world had soldiers for his grand scheme ever seen connecting and set out for the first battle the Greeks to the in 334 BC. The most peculiar people of India. For thing though that still has his entire life he was historians wondering is if he bred to fight as a son planned for a grander scheme of the King of then just conquering the Macedonia, who was largest empire in the ancient King Philip II. world. His childhood was one of being bred for With the army he took along botanists, war and basking in the glory of a great architects, engineers, as well as artists and King, which he was to become. His many historians. His first stop in the Persian teachers taught him Greek philosophy as Empire was that of the coast of Ionia, well as literature and military tactics. One which is the western coast of modern day of these teachers was none other then Turkey. He took his army to the site of the Aristotle. His father furthered his City of Troy as propaganda, because the knowledge in the areas of warfare and Greeks defeated the Asian Trojans in the politics. His mother, who was Olympias of Trojan War, so as to say that the Greeks Epirus, bred him psychologically to believe are here and ready to take more. His first that he was not the son of Philip but a major battle against the Persian in Asia demi-god and that of Zeus’ bloodline. In was at the river Granicus which ended in 337 BC Phillip was elected the leader of the victory of Alexander. He then led his the Greek invasion force that was to attack men swiftly through Asia Minor and took the Persian Empire the next year. the eastern coastal cities of Ionia. After the long and grueling campaign he conquered lands he set his sights on turned his sights onto Gordian and Babylon, the capital of the Persian Empire. attempted a try at the fabled Gordian knot. He led his army to the plains of The legend behind the knot was if a man Gaugamela, in modern day Iraq. could untie it he would conquer all of Asia. When he cut the rope instead of untying it, Darius had his army lead a spear attack he gained public appeal that gave him and divided the Macedonians and their many new recruits from the conquered allies into two and tried to destroy one wing cities now under his control. The next time at a time. Alexander led his cavalry to the he fought a Persian army was in the aid of the other wing when under general mountain pass at Issus in Northwestern Permenio when Darius was pressing on Syria. The Persian King, King Darius III, that side. Alexander thus won the battle by personally lead the army of about 600,000 driving Darius away yet again after Darius men easily outnumbering Alexander and separated the Macedonian wings. He then the Macedonians. rode on towards and occupied the city of Babylon and then took the capital of the Alexander and the Macedonians won Persians, Persepolis. through a well devised plan and Darius fled the field leaving his mother, wife, and To solidify the power he had now acquired children behind to be slaughtered. Alexander then married a Persian noble Alexander allowed them to live out of woman which politically made him part of respect of their royalty. He then swept into Persia. He then marched into India and the eastern edge of the Mediterranean fought against the natives of India. coastline and absorbed all major cities Alexander left the world at the age of 33 except for the island city of Tyre. He then from a severe fever in the year of 323 BC. set siege to the city and conquered it Alexander left us with a genuine style of several months later. He then swept farther military campaigning that was admired by down and took the city of Gaza after a two great military minds later after his death months siege. such as Julius Caesar and Hannibal. He also left the ancient world with an outbreak As Alexander marched his army into Egypt of Greek architecture and philosophy that he was seen as a liberator by the further developed the nations of the Middle Egyptians and met hardly any resistance. East today. The Egyptians began to call him a god and he turned this and asked them not to call him that. So instead they called him Alexander the Great and worshipped him. After solidifying his hold on his newly Alexander the Great Debate NO Foundations Ch 5 Did Alexander the Great deserve the distinction of being called “Great”? http://www.helium.com/debates/239609-alexander-the-great-military-genius-or-murderous- madman/side_by_side?page=1 Reading with interest the biography and rational plan; most likely, in fact, of Alexander the Great, I realize that, he would have never begun such first of all, he wasn't a military genius enterprise if he had known how large and that he had committed various and hostile was Asia. He followed crimes in war and even against his only a great, crazy dream of glory best friends and co-workers, during and ambition to accomplish what his his incredible conquest of the whole father, Philip II, had only projected Middle East that features the largest until the day of his assassination, in part of his short 336 B.C.. reign. His many biographers and However, the most admirers were often important reason for impressed by his which Alexander great, inexhaustible wasn't a military energy and genius is that his courage, when he invincible army had defeated the already been Persian army that created by his counted 1 million father Philip II with soldiers with not the invention of the more than 25- phalanx. With this 30,000 Macedonian massive attack and Greek soldiers, front-line, Philip but I think they could easily defeat underrated his the coalition of the many weak points Greek towns at at the base of the Chaeronea (338 fast dissolution of B.C.) and expand his empire after his the reign of death. Macedonia northward, until the He was an exceptional commander Danube. Alexander never changed with a magnetic appeal on his men, this model, but he transformed it in a but his strong determination in legendary invincible army thanks to conquering the Persian Empire as a his courage at the limits of madness. revenge for its attempted invasion of He was proud of his glory, but he Greece during the previous century had a deep inferiority complex and the whole Asia wasn't a strategic toward his father, whom he had to overcome at any cost. For this history. Moreover, Alexander had reason, he frequently claimed that killed the doctor who couldn't avoid his achievements were much greater the death of his lover, a boy named than his father's ones and he didn't Hephestion and he appeared tolerate critiques on this argument, devastated by this loss. as better shown below. In war, Alexander alternated One day, in fact, at a banquet in clemency with great cruelty; he had which (as usual during his last years) just taken the throne, which he Alexander and most of his court repressed a riot of the Greek towns were drunk, his faithful lieutenant deleting totally Thebes, but he saved Cleitos (who had saved Alexander's Athens, for which he had a great life in the Battle of the Granicus, in respect due to the great culture of 334 B.C. and was one of his best this town (another inferiority friends) quarreled with Alexander complex). Moreover, he totally because the latter intended to send destroyed Persepolis the capital of him to fight the nomads in the the Persian Empire, already desolate steeps of Russia, where he conquered, due to his rage for would have been forgotten while having discovered in this town some Alexander got the best of glory. Greek prisoners taken by the Persians with their hands cut. Cleitus tried to oppose this decision and Alexander answered with His decision to proceed against arrogance that his decision was right India, with the same little and tired because the glory he had just army he had with him, was conquered was much more than that something similar to a delirium of of his father. At this point, Cleitus lost omnipotence, so that his soldiers, his temper and said that Alexander although they had always loved him, wasn't a legitimate king and that the refused to proceed further and force of his army was due to his Alexander had to get back across father.
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