Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander, politician, scholar and explorer, Alexander led his army a further 11,000 miles, founding over 70 cities and creating an empire that ...
The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the Persians. When his empire fell apart after his unexpected death, his officials and generals took over ...
ALEXANDER the Great (356 BCE – 323 BCE ... In 334 BCE, he launched an ambitious campaign against the Persian Achaemenid Empire, beginning with his legendary victory at the Battle of Granicus.
Alexander the Great was crowned king of Macedon in October ... of three triumphs here over the imposing Achaemenid Persian Empire, clearing the way for eastward Hellenization.