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• Born 356 BC• Dies 323 BC• Born in Macedon, son of
King Philip II• Someone assassinates Philip
II• Tutored by Aristotle• Later tutored by diiulio
• Takes the throne at age 20• Carries out his father
ambition to conquer once and for all
• Persia• Legend of the Gordian Knot
• An oracle said that whoever could untie the Gordian Knot would rule the world
• He joins three continents together for the first time
• He joins the three river valley civilizations together
• The Nile• The Tigris and
Euphrates• The Indus River
• Even the Danube River is part of this empire
• Africa, Asia Minor, India and Europe are fused for the first time
• He never lost a battle in his 11 year campaign
• His own army defeated him by refusing to fight
• He marched 11,000 miles • Covered 2 million square
miles• He created the largest
empire to date in history and all in 11 years
• No one will conquer more land faster than Alexander until the Mongolians in the 13th century
• Alexander Hellenized his empire
• Spreads Greek culture to all his conquests
• He makes an effort to purposely fuse the best of all these cultures
• He encouraged mixed marriages asking his own soldiers to marry women of conquered land
• Respects the diversity of culture lands conquered
• Expects to create hybrid races through marriages
• Even Alexander married an India princess
• Founded over 70 new cities for the purpose of bringing Greek Culture to conquered lands
• Joins trade routes from India to Mesopotamia to Egypt and Macedon
• India has some trade relations with China
• Ergo he creates the worlds first international trade network
• This trade network eventually grows over time and will eventually create trade between the Roman Empire and China
• This later becomes the Silk Road
• Globalization??• He dies at age 33 of a
sever fever• His empire is divided
into four kingdoms which falls apart within decades of his death
• Only the Ptolemy section survives for a while
• Though he died young and his empire never lasted
• His contribution to civilization endures till this day
• How, You ask?? • Because, I said!!• The city of Alexandria is
his gift to history• It is the most intellectual
and academic city in the world
• More knowledge and inventions came from Alexandria than any other city in the world
• More great minds lived and worked in Alexandria than any other city in the world
• They had the largest library of the Ancient world possessing more than 700,000 scrolls
• They had universities, medical schools and planetariums
• They had a museum• 14,000 students at one
time• Botanical Gardens• The city was truly
cosmopolitan• It was composed of
almost every race and heritage in the region
• Trade from all over the Mediterranean and more poured into Alexandria
• They built the famous Lighthouse of Pharos
• It is one of the Seven Wonders of the World