Alexander, perhaps the greatest personality in world history

on June 10, 323 BC, in Babylon, Mesopotamia (now Iraq), Alexander the Great dies of malaria or poisoning
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there's no point in getting into conspiracy theories about whether it was poisoning after all and who wanted him dead...
best care is, say, what he accomplished while he was in life
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Alexander is perhaps the greatest personality in world history
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found from his father Philip ready the Macedonian phalanx which was an army, rather, a war machine,
unrivalled for its time
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and with this machine, his immense ambition and undoubted skill, he conquered more than half the then known world, reaching as far as India.
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but he was not just a military maniac, but a man of vision and culture.
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Alexander in his campaign except from the pacemakers (they counted the steps they took every day and knew at all times where they were)
he had also taken with him
engineers,
surveyors,
Doctors,
architects,
philosophers,
botanists,
astronomers,
artists
and a host of other scientists who were giving and receiving knowledge every day....
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as Peter Green writes in his book about Alexander:
«the entire accumulated knowledge of the following centuries is due to the scientists that Alexander the Great had taken with him»
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Darius III of Persia or otherwise the great king, tried 2 times to confront Alexander
and even with a more numerous army
but
and both times Alexander flattened him.
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Alexander, who was essentially a child not even 25 years old, had studied strategy and war from the age of 16, alongside his father, Philip, in the great wars within Greece
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So at 25, apart from being an excellent general, he was a lad who fought in all the battles on the front line.
and he had received several wounds all to the front of his body
had and displayed scars from
arrow
spear
siege engine
wood
stone
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in 333 BC at the Battle of Issus he defeats Darius for the first time who runs away and leaves Alexander's entire family in his hands
and
in 331 BC at Gaugamela where Alexander turns him back into a panicked flight
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But Alexander was not a kafir with the family of Darius,
respected them
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so
when Darius' mother learned of the death of Alexander the Great
she fell to the ground and started pulling her hair out,
He tore off the clothes he wore and dressed himself in mourning.
decided never to put food in her mouth again and never to see the sun in her eyes again.
died after five days...
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Alexander conquered 26 present-day countries
(Greece, Albania, Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Israel, India, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan).
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made the Greek language universal,
built over 70 cities,
but above all,
changed the history of the world...
this is the greatest feat of the great Alexander
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these you will find and read almost everywhere
what you probably won't find is that Alexander was ruthless
in the face of military or political advantage was not a priority.
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literally wiped out entire cities by slaughtering those who resisted and selling all others as slaves (dehumanization)
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you will tell me
that's how the great generals are or you become a plumber.
I agree, I'll tell you, but here goes.
he was not a civilizer
was a real conqueror
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civilization happened but it was a natural consequence....
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now,
in the depths of Asia,
as rich as any other Greek,
he kept only flatterers in his yard,
he got the disease that almost all great leaders get
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But worse than that was that from all the fighting, all the slaughter and all the blood, his psyche was disturbed.
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so with a disturbed psyche and with such a bad court advising him only to the worst, he committed terrible crimes.
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it wasn't just the manhandling that he unleashed
but
and the murders of his own that he ordered or committed
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e.g.
ordered the death of Parmenion, the most worthy and venerable general of his
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when he himself, in a moment of anger and drunkenness, murdered Cletus Melas
(it was he who in the battle of Granicus had saved his life when he had managed to cut the hand of an enemy a few seconds before he took Alexander's head)
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his psyche was getting worse and worse (it's a condition that American soldiers returning from Vietnam also had to deal with)
and when his lover Hephaestion died suddenly, he became completely
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now Alexander was a different man.
from now on would only damage his reputation
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death came at the right time to keep him forever in eternity
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anyway Alexander the Great is in my opinion one of the greatest personalities in world history

Author of the article:

Yannis Golias