Alexander the Great (2)

Alexander the Great (*356; r. 336-323): the Macedonian king who defeated his Persian colleague Darius III Codomannus and conquered the Achaemenid Empire. During his campaigns, Alexander visited a.o. Egypt, Babylonia, Persis, Media, Bactria, the Punjab, and the valley of the Indus. In the second half of his reign, he had to find a way to rule his newly conquered countries. Therefore, he made Babylon his capital and introduced the oriental court ceremonial, which caused great tensions with his Macedonian and Greek officers.

Biography

  1. Youth
  2. Greece
  3. Asia Minor
  4. Halicarnassus
  5. Anatolia
  6. Issus
  7. The Levant
  8. Egypt
  9. Gaugamela and Babylon
  10. The End of Persia
  11. King of Asia
  12. Sogdia
  13. The Punjab
  14. The Return
  15. Lord of All
  16. Death in Babylon
  17. Civil War
  18. The Fourth Beast

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