Alexander the Great bio
...onia. Pausanias assassinated King Philip. Olympias enabled him to do such a horrific deed, for he could have never done it alone. After his death, Olympias had Cleopatra tortured to death. After Philip’s death, Alexander was heir to the throne of Macedonia at the age of twenty-one. Fighting began in the cities and the states of Macedonia due to there having this new ruler. Alexander’s council told him to keep the Greeks happy and concentrate on the nation’s on keeping the barbarian nations of the north in their place. Alexander decided to rule the Greeks just as his father did. He felt that if he gave in to the desires of the people that the barbarian nations of the north woulod see it as weakness and try to take the nation. Alexandar took an army to the Danube and whipped all the tribes in that vicinity. Upon Alexandar’s return tho Greece, there was an uprising in Thebes, and he went to take care of business. He went to the city walls and insisted that the two leaders of the rebellion be brought into his captivity. If his wishes were obeyed he would offer a full pardon to everyone that had been involved in the rebellion. They insulted their young king, so Alexandar killed 6,000, demolished their city, and sold the ones he didn’t kill into slavery. After the battle at Thebes, King Alexander’s country never rebelled against him again. Any survivor of Thebes that the king found was always treated with kindness and mercy. I personally believe that he felt some remorse for the severity of his actions at Thebes. King Alexander crossed into Asia and came to Try. While there, he found a tomb of an ancestor of his own, on his mother’s side, names Chilles. He anointed the grace. Then, according to the ancient custom of that time, he ran around the tomb naked. He said that Achilles was lucky to have such a good friend and poet to write such good things in his honor after his death. Next, King Alexander went to cross the Granicus River and found 40,000 Persian soldiers there to keep him from crossing. He realized that is seemed almost impossible, but he bravely led 13 squadrons of horsemen across the river while under heavy attack of arrows. The Persians knew King Alexander by the sight of his exuberant military armor, so the bravest Persians came after King Alexander. Most of the battle was fought around him. Alexander lost on 34 men, compared to the Persian’s great loss of 22,500 mean. This first victory changed the way that all of the cities of the coast looked at Alexander’s rule. Everyone surrendered to him, except for Halicarnassus and Miletus, which he conquered. King Darius, the King of Persia, heard about his loss of 22,500 men to King Alexander. He brought 600,000 of his own men to fight Alexander’s escape. Unbeknowingly, Alexander marches into Syria to meet King Darius and the Persians. While in Syria, King Alexander heard that the Persians were behind him at Issus, so he made an about face to conquer Persia. King Darius hurried to get out of Issus for he realized that in the rough terrain of Issus his calvary would be of no use to him. Alexander met him at his army’s we akest him and crushed the Persian’s left side of their army. King Darius was so afraid that he escaped leaving his bow, shield, chariot, mantle, army, and 110,000 of his own dead soldiers. At the end of another battle, Alexander was paying some of his soldiers for fight, and the money was running low. One of his men asked how his household was going to survive. He replied that he would through hope. The man told him that he would fight for nothing. This display of a soldier’s love for his country was also accredited to Alexander’s living among the soldiers and not in the lap luxury, as the other kings had done. As Alexander was away fighting and conquering the known world, his empire weakened through the rumors of his death. More than a third o...