Alexander the Great

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1. 356–323 b.c., king of Macedonia 336–323: conqueror of Greek city-states and of the Persian empire from Asia Minor and Egypt to India.

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Alexander the Great British  

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1. 356–323 _bc , king of Macedon, who conquered Greece (336), Egypt (331), and the Persian Empire (328), and founded Alexandria

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Alexander the Great Cultural  

1. A ruler of Greece in the fourth century b.c. As a general, he conquered most of the ancient world, extending the civilization of Greece east to India. Alexander is said to have wept because there were no worlds left to conquer. In Alexander's youth, the philosopher Aristotle was his tutor.

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Before beginning his conquests, Alexander allegedly unloosed the Gordian knot by cutting through it. It was believed that the person who unfastened the Gordian knot would rule a vast territory in Asia. Alexander founded the city of Alexandria, which became a great center of learning in Egypt (see also Egypt).

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Figures like Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon were adventurers, and while perhaps not personally admirable, they changed history and changed it irrevocably:

From Salon

"Iran doesn't have an independence day because they have not been conquered since the days of Alexander the Great."

From BBC

Of Alexander the Great that he acted on behalf of the Greek cities of Asia that he had freed from Persian rule?

From The Wall Street Journal

Her Hellenic identity is unsurprising, as there was an influx of Greeks after Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C.

From The Wall Street Journal

Alexander the Great, who had died in Babylon in 323 B.C., provided for Agathocles and the age’s other warlords what Ms. MacDonald terms “a new model for power in the ancient world.”

From The Wall Street Journal