Alexander the great
- goes to Palistine and heads to Persepolis (anchient capitol of Persia)
Battle of Issus
- meets Derius' fources at the river issus
- flankes Derius' weak archers with calvery
- battle won by alexander in only about 2 min
- Derius gives the kingdom to alexander
- alexander wins the trust form persia by hunting down the man who betreid Derius
- fallows Bessus and has his nose, ears, and toung cut off and hen sends him back to persia o be impales
- greeks thougt earth ended around central asia and then there was an ocean
- he then goes south to india
- alexander gets an arow shot through he lung in india but suvives
- constant resistence in India
- alexander agrees to go home
- alexander was changed by persia (he takes a persian wife and dresses as a persian king/ his men also take persian wives)
- In babilon he loses friend in acident becomes depressed
- he becomes ill and dies at age 32
- alexanders empire is split up between the generals
- seleucid empire is eastern part of alexamder's empire
- Ptlolemaic egypt (greek descendents of ptolemy will rule egypt)
- hellenistic civilization
picture from
Battle issus initial.gif. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_issus_initial.gif
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