Alexander

Instructions: Read the following article and make a resume about it. Alexander the Great Alexander the Great was a young general who amassed the largest empire of the ancient world in just thirteen years. His career was brief because he died a young man,... More

Instructions: Read the following article and make a resume about it. Alexander the Great Alexander the Great was a young general who amassed the largest empire of the ancient world in just thirteen years. His career was brief because he died a young man, but Alexander’s legacy was a blending of cultures we now call the Hellenistic civilization. Alexander’s father was King Philip of Macedon. Macedonia is a mountainous land north of the Greek peninsula. From a young age, Phillip trained Alexander in warfare and by the age of sixteen, the young man was leading an army on his own. Alexander succeeded his father in power at age nineteen after Philip’s assassination in 336BCE. Philip’s armies had conquered most of the Greek poli by that time, but the Greeks believed they could free themselves of Macedonian rule since their new king was a “mere boy.” Alexander proved the Greeks wrong by leading an army that captured Thebes; the young general burned all but one home in the polis as a warning t Less