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King of Macedon · 356–323 BC · Leadership & Politics

Took the Macedonian throne at twenty, beat the Persian Empire in three battles, and reached the Punjab before his army refused to go further.

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Who Alexander the Great was

Tutored by Aristotle and commanding a wing of his father's cavalry at eighteen, Alexander inherited a professional army and a plan to invade Persia when Philip II was murdered in 336 BC. He crushed Darius III at Issus and Gaugamela, took Tyre after a seven-month siege, was crowned in Egypt and founded Alexandria there. He pushed on through Bactria into India, won a costly victory over Porus at the Hydaspes, and turned back only when his troops mutinied at the Hyphasis. He adopted Persian court customs, which angered his Macedonian officers, and killed his friend Cleitus in a drunken argument. He died at Babylon at thirty-two.

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How did you win at Gaugamela when you were so outnumbered?

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Why adopt Persian customs when your officers hated it?

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What happened at the Hyphasis when the army stopped?

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What did Aristotle actually teach you?

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Do you regret what you did to Cleitus?

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