Wars of Alexander the Great

Address the question of how Greek democracy ended. Based on this week story reading understanding that I have learned and understand about the Legacy of Athenian Democracy. A Greek democracy season that starts following their downfall of Athens, I think Spartans play a big roll to provide a chance to the Athenians to substitute the government of the Thirty Tyrants with a new democratic system. The tyrannies had been a destructive and bloody disappointment, and have a Spartans support…

Hellenistic Era, under Alexander the Great is superior to its contemporaries because of its size, the time it took to build, its diversity and adaptation to culture, and its style of government, the reverence of its subjects, and its legacy. Robert W. Strayer’s 2013 edition of Ways of the World provides evidence that compares and contrasts this empire with other regimes of the era to support this assertion. While it’s true that the Hellenistic empire was “founded and sustained at a great cost in…

what we want). Freedom is the Central theme associated with democracy. After Greece’s downfall, democracy was not known again till the American Revolution. History is made by Great People. The Father of history was a man by the name Herodotus who wrote about the Persian wars. The early revolt by the Ionians during the Persian Wars (499-494 B.C.) ignited the ideas of democracy, because of the fear of enslavement by the Persian King Darius I. The Greeks leader Miltiades resisted the Persians with…

influenced the modern world in many ways. Ancient Greece had some of the best minds ever. A lot of the scientific information we know today came from ancient Greece like our solar system revolves around the Sun, and the Earth is round. There also was a great deal of philosophers from ancient Greece that continue to influence the world thousands of years after their death. Archimedes One example of an ancient Greek scientist that has discovered a lot of what we know about physics is…

Alexander the Great was born in the Pella Region of Macedonia on July 20, 356 B.C. His father was King Phillip of Macedon and his mother was Queen Olympia, who was the daughter of King Neoptolemus. Alexander resented his father growing up because he was constantly engaged in military campaigns and was hardly home. Alexander the Great should have an iconic status because of his education, military experience, and conquests throughout his life. “I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what…

Indian contact with the Greeks and Persians provided more than just warfare, but enhanced the economy and administrative tactics. This foreign intervention set the foundation for leaders to construct large empires, with one of them being the Mauryan Empire, and develop a society that still has influence on present day India. India became involved in the battles of the sixth century B.C.E. Persian invasion, by the emperor Darius, reaching into the Indus Valley and Kashmir around 513 B.C.E.…

who will try.” A quote by Alexander the Great (“TOP 25 QUOTES,” n.d.) . Is it possible to be the greatest of all times? Many historians say that Alexander III of Macedon became the greatest of his time, with the push of his father and other family members, as well as the guidance of his teachers, he did become the greatest. Alexander the Greats Family influences Alexander was born in 356 BC and his parents were King Philip II and Queen Olympia’s (“Alexander the Great,” 2009). He was born in…

Alexander the Great became the leader of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia in 336 B.C. and by the time he unexpectedly died 13 years later, Alexander had managed to successfully build an empire that stretched from Greece all the way to India. Although Alexander’s empire expansion campaign was rather brief, it nevertheless had a major global impact as it resulted in the spread of Greek culture and ideas over the entire expanse, ranging from the Eastern Mediterranean region to Asia. Historians…

Greek Civilization Greek civilization has led us to where we are in today’s society. We incorporate the language to this day and the Greeks also formed democracy. Greeks also used tools that we use to this day. First, I will address the question, ‘How do you explain the development of such an extraordinary civilization by the Greek?” Second, “Do you think much credit belongs to some sort of Greek “spirit,” or were geographic factors more important?” Last question is, “Should Greek civilization…

The author of The Life of Alexander the Great, Plutarch, is one of the most famous philosophers in history that also enriched the writing genre of biography. He is known for his biography of famous Greek men and the various morals and virtues they held called Parallel Lives. Plutarch wrote the biography of Alexander nearly 400 years after the leader passed away. Because of the large gap in between Plutarch and Alxander, Plutarch used various anecdotes from other historians like Callithenes,…