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Alexander The Great
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Alexander The Great
This paper describes how Alexander The Great established an empire and his own deity and discusses his campaigns & goals.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages) |
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1974
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"In eleven short years, Alexander the Great of Macedon conquered Asia Minor, Persia and India, establishing an empire which stretched from the northern fringes of modern Albania to the Indus River and swept westward along the Mediterranean shores to Alexandria and southward in Egypt to the First Cataract of the Nile River.At the same time, he established cities in the role of colonizer, regulated trade in the guise of economist, and assumed the trappings of Persian nobility in the perspective of politician. At the same time, he established himself as a god, while claiming descent from Achilles, an act later historians did not derogate. Arrian says: "Nor do I think that Alexander's claim to a divine origin was a very serious fault -- in any case, it may well have been a mere device to magnify his consequence in ... "
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