Alexander The Great Dbq

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Was Alexander the Great all that great? Alexander was a Greek born in 356 B.C in a city located in Northern Greece in a Kingdom named Macedonia. His father, King Philip of Macedonia, was the king of this kingdom where Alexander was born. Alexander inherited the throne when his father was assassinated while Alexander was 20 years old. Alexander the Great does deserve to be a great.
Alexander used his smartness and quick-thinking skills to win battles in the heat of the moment. Once he was about to cross a river when he saw that Porus, the enemy, was directly across from him and his army, “When Alexander saw this, he [decided to] move his troops in all different directions so that Porus would keep puzzled” (Doc A). In like manner in a game of

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