Examples of Alexander the Great in the following topics:
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- Alexander the Great conquered the Achaemenid Empire in 331 BCE to form the largest empire in the ancient world.
- The Persians and the Greeks had been warring for hundreds of years before Alexander the Great moved to conquer Persia.
- Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) was a king of the Greek kingdom of Macedon.
- From Persepolis, Alexander headed north to Pasargadae where he visited the tomb of Cyrus the Great.
- Explain Alexander the Great's defeat of the Persiand and the dissolution of the Achaemenid Empire thereafter
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- In a little over 30 years, Alexander the Great created one of the largest empires in the ancient world, using his military and tactical genius.
- Alexander III, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was born to Philip II in Pella in 356 BCE, and succeeded his father to the throne at the age of 20.
- Alexander earned the honorific epithet "the Great" due to his unparalleled success as a military commander.
- Alexander used its speed and maneuverability to great effect against larger, but more disparate, Persian forces.
- Bust of a young Alexander the Great from the Hellenistic era, now at the British Museum.
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- Four stable power blocks emerged following the
death of Alexander the Great: the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, the Seleucid
Empire, the Attalid dynasty of the Kingdom of Pergamon, and Macedon.
- Ptolemy was appointed as satrap of
Egypt in 323 BCE by Perdiccas during the succession crisis that erupted
following Alexander the Great.
- As Alexander the Great’s
empire disintegrated, however, Ptolemy established himself as a ruler in his
own right.
- It was founded
by Seleucus I Nicator following the dissolution of Alexander the Great’s
empire.
- Evaluate Alexander the Great's legacy as carried
out by his successors.
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- Alexander the Great left his legacy by spreading Greek culture through Asia, though his empire fell apart after his death.
- Alexander founded some twenty cities that bore his name, most of them east of the Tigris.
- Alexander had no obvious heir.
- Eventually, the two sides reconciled, and after the birth of Alexander IV, he and Philip III were appointed joint kings.
- In the process, both Alexander IV and Philip III were murdered.
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- Alexander the Great's legacy was the dissemination of Greek culture throughout Asia.
- Alexander deliberately pursued Hellenization policies in the
communities he conquered.
- Over the course of his conquests, Alexander founded some 20 cities that bore his name, most of them east of the Tigris River.
- In the process, both Alexander IV and Philip III were murdered.
- Name of Alexander the Great in Egyptian hieroglyphs (written from right to left), c. 330 BCE, Egypt; Louvre Museum.
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- First occupied by the Assyrians, then the Persians, and later the Macedonians and Romans, Egyptians would never again reach the glorious heights of self-rule they achieved during previous periods.
- First occupied by the Assyrians, then the Persians, and later the Macedonians and Romans, Egyptians would never again reach the glorious heights of self-rule they achieved during previous periods.
- Having been victorious in Egypt, the Assyrians installed a series of vassals known as the Saite kings of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
- Persian rule was restored briefly in 343 BCE, known as the Thirty-first Dynasty, but in 332 BCE, Egypt was handed over peacefully to the Macedonian ruler, Alexander the Great.
- Alexander the Great was welcomed into Egypt as a deliverer, and the new capital city of Alexandria was a showcase of Hellenistic rule, capped by the famous Library of Alexandria.
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- His expansion took advantage of the disruptions of local powers in the wake of the withdrawal westward by Alexander the Great's armies.
- By 316 BCE, the empire had fully occupied Northwestern India, defeating and conquering the satraps left by Alexander.
- At its greatest extent, the empire ruled by the Nanda Dynasty extended from Bengal in the east, to the Punjab region in the west, and as far south as the Vindhya Range.
- The rulers of this dynasty were famed for the great wealth that they accumulated.
- He rapidly expanded his power westward across central and western India, taking advantage of the disruptions of local powers in the wake of the withdrawal westward by Alexander the Great's Greek armies.
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- For a wider section
of the population, moulded relief decoration in pottery vessels and small figurines
were produced in great quantities and were often of great quality.
- The portraits of Pompey the Great were neither fully idealized, nor were they created in the same veristic style of Republican senators.
- Pompey borrowed a specific parting and curl of his hair from Alexander the Great, linking Pompey visually to Alexander's likeness and triggering his audience to associate him with Alexander's characteristics and qualities.
- The portraits of Pompey the Great were neither fully idealized, nor were they created in the same veristic style of Republican senators.
- This bust clearly shows the specific parting and curl of his hair that would have likened him to Alexander the Great.
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- Alexander instituted a number of policies that contributed to the Hellenization of his empire, including the mixing of Greek and Asian cultural customs.
- The Hellenistic period is the period of ancient Greek and Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE and the emergence of the Roman Empire as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE and the subsequent conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt in 30 BCE.At this time, Greek cultural influence and power was at its peak in Europe, Africa and Asia, and experienced prosperity and progress in the arts, exploration, literature, theatre, architecture, music, mathematics, philosophy, and science.It is often considered a period of transition, sometimes even of decadence or degeneration, as compared to the brilliance of the Greek Classical era.
- It seems likely that Alexander himself pursued deliberate "Hellenization" policies.While these policies could have been an attempt to spread Greek culture, it is more likely that his policies were a series of pragmatic measures designed to aid in the rule of his enormous empire.
- Second, Alexander attempted to create a unified ruling class of Persians and Greeks bound by marriage ties.He used both Greeks and Persians in positions of power, although he depended more on Greeks in unstable positions, and also replaced many Persian satraps in a purge after his return from India.He also attempted to mix the two cultures by adopting elements of the Persian court (such as a version of the royal robes and some of the court ceremony and attendants) and attempting to insist on the practice of proskynesis for his Greek subjects.He likely had intentions to equalize the two races in their behavior towards Alexander as 'Great King', but his actions were bitterly resented by the Macedonians, as the Greek custom was reserved solely for the gods.This policy can be interpreted as an attempt to spread Greek culture, or to create a hybrid culture; however, again, it can also be seen as an attempt to help control the unwieldy empire, as Alexander required loyalty from Persian nobles as much as from his Macedonian officers.A hybrid court culture may have been created so as not to exclude the Persians.Furthermore, Alexander's marriage to, and child with the Bactrian princess Roxane can be interpreted as an attempt to create a royal dynasty which would be acceptable to both Asians and Greeks.
- Thus, though Alexander's policies did undoubtedly result in the spread of Greek culture, they probably were meant to be pragmatic attempts by Alexander to control his extensive new territories, in part by presenting himself as the heir to both Greek and Asian legacies, rather than an outsider.
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- Although the papacy eventually emerged supreme in ecclesiastical matters by the Fifth Council of the Lateran (1511), it was dogged by continued accusations of corruption, most famously in the person of Pope Alexander VI, who was accused variously of simony, nepotism and fathering four children.
- The City of Rome, the Papacy, and the Papal States were all affected by the Renaissance.
- On the one hand, it was a time of great artistic patronage and architectural magnificence, where the Church pardoned and even sponsored such artists as Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, Fra Angelico, Donatello, and da Vinci.
- The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation or the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation, beginning with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' War (1648).
- Analyze the Church's role in Italy at the time of the Renaissance