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alexander the great
Alexaner the Great
Trivia about alexander the great
His forces defeated the Persian Army under Darius III in 333 B.C.
He was tutored by Aristotle, tamed Bucephalus & cut the Gordian Knot; then after lunch...
In 336 B.C. at age 20, he succeeded his murdered father as Macedonia's king & was just super...wait, that's not the right word
Seen here is a gold coin depicting this Macedonian ruler who died in 323 B.C.
The Hellenistic Age began with the death of this Macedonian conqueror
330 B.C.:At 26, I've conquered Persia... Can you conquer my heart?
We fought against the Seleucid kingdom, founded by a general under this "great" conqueror
In 324 B.C. he was king of Persia & leader of Greece, as well as king of Macedonia
When he conquered Thebes, he destroyed every house but the one the poet Pindar had lived in
A major reason for his invasion of Persia in 334 B.C. was to cover the debt left by his father, Philip II
Dating from around 300 B.C., the silver tetradrachma coin depicts this Macedonian leader
In 331 B.C. this Macedonian traveled to the Siwa Oasis where the oracle pronounced him a god
Eurynoe, a Macedonian princess of the 300s B.C., had this great nephew -- not great-nephew, great nephew
Bucephalus was the favorite horse of this ancient warrior, who built a city in its honor when it died
In 323 B.C. this "great" man, who had conquered much of the known world, died at age 33 of a nasty fever
Aristotle was a tutor of this world conqueror
The Hellenistic period in Ancient Greek art began with his conquests
In the 4th century B.C. Lycia was conquered by this Macedonian & absorbed into his empire
This Macedonian visited Siwa Oasis in 331 B.C. & was hailed as a son of Amon by the oracle
336 B.C.:dad ded in rgicd!i'm 20 & macedonia kng?!omg!
This 4th century B.C. Macedonian king supposedly "wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer"
In 331 this Macedonian took possession of the palaces & treasuries of the major cities of Mesopotamia
Spreading Greek culture far & wide, he inaugurated the Hellenistic Age in the 4th century B.C.
When he sacked Thebes in 336 B.C., he was only about 20
In about 326 B.C. his horse Bucephalus died in India; he built a city to honor his trusty steed
As part of his Easternmost conquests, this Greek's armies occupied the Punjab around 327 B.C.
Julius Caesar burst into tears when he thought of how many lands this man had conquered by Julius' age
I'm all for youth, but can you believe this guy led an army to victory over the Thracians in 340 B.C. at age 16
The end finally came for the Phoenicians when this man's forces defeated them in 332 B.C.
His father told him to "Seek out a kingdom worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for thee"
Around 336 B.C. this conqueror's army attacked & destroyed the Greek city of Thebes
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an animated diagram on the monitor.) At the Battle of Issus in 333 B.C., the Macedonian cavalry attacked the Persian left flank, then wheeled around to complete a smashing triumph for this great general
An elite cavalry formation made up of noblemen, the Companions were this Macedonian's shock force vs. the Persians
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Before his death in 323 B.C., he expanded his empire until it stretched from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Indus River
Like this great leader whom he'd served as a general, Egypt's King Ptolemy I was Macedonian
Near the end of the play, Fluellen, one of Henry V's officers, compares him to this 4th century B.C. conqueror
This conqueror & pupil of Aristotle is quoted, "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well"
Mary Renault's historical novel "Fire from Heaven" chronicles the childhood of this Macedonian king
Born 356 B.C., Pella, Macedonia; pooch: Peritas, who had a city named in his honor
Assuring the dominance of western culture, his forces routed the Persians at Gaugamela in 331 B.C.
328 B.C.:This Macedonian leader "Needs to Conquer Drinking -- Kills Friend Cleitus in Rage!"
Persian king Darius III failed to appreciate tactics & lost his empire to this great leader in 331 B.C.
The Battle of Hydaspes in 326 B.C. opened the way for this conqueror to enter India
His empire collapsed after he died of a fever in 323 B.C.; guess he forgot to feed a cold
Cyrus the Great captured Babylon in 539 B.C. & this Great guy took it in 331 B.C.
This Macedonian conqueror campaigned along the Indus River in 327-326 B.C.
Bucephalus
Around 334 B.C. this Macedonian's stater became a world currency
He died in 323 B.C. at age 32 when he took ill after a long party with heavy drinking
"Conqueror of the World", "Macedonia's Madman"
The Persian king Darius III led 250,000 troops to defeat against this man's 47,000 in 331 B.C.
...330 B.C. was when he had his army march on Persepolis & burn the palaces
In 335 B.C., at about 21, he crossed the Danube to get at the Getae
When he died at age 33 in 323 B.C., his empire was over 2,500 miles wide
Ptolemy X, a little short of funds, replaced this Macedonian's fancy gold coffin with an alabaster one
Philip II assassinated, this son takes the throne; the not-so-great news on Macedonian Journal Tonight
An elephant pulls this man's chariot in Charles Le Brun's depiction of his 331 B.C. entry into Babylon
After this man died in 323 B.C., Ptolemy, one of his generals, declared himself Pharaoh
In 336 B.C., at age 20, he became king of the Macedonians
In 338 B.C. at age 18, he commanded the cavalry in his father's army in the Battle of Chaeronea in Macedonia
(Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Luxor, Egypt.) Way back in the 300s B.C., this conqueror restored the Temple at Luxor to what he claimed was its historic glory
…he was tutored by Aristotle & then beat Darius III at Issus
This ruler's public dress, halfway between Persian & Macedonian, ticked off the Macedonians
According to Plutarch, in the 300s B.C., Persian king Darius dreamed this conqueror would wait on him
At the height of Greek military power, death felled him in 323 B.C. as he planned the conquest of Arabia
In 333 B.C. this leader defeated Darius III, king of Persia, at Issus in Syria but was unable to capture him
In 332 B.C. this Macedonian conquered the Phoenician seaport of Tyre after a 7-month siege
Thessalonica was a sister of this conqueror, but it was her husband who named a city after her
Around 342 B.C.:"Aristotle Tutors Tot";323 B.C.:He's "Gone in Babylon"
"Il Re Pastore" dramatizes a legend about this conqueror known in the opera as Alessandro