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Alexander died on June 10, 323 b.c. at the age of 32.
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In 331, at the Battle of Gaugamela (in present-day Iraq), he defeated the army of the Persian king, Darius III because of how Darius was murdered by his own nobles after this defeat, Alexander succeeded him as the new Lord of Asia.
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Alexander had become King of Macedon in 336 b.c. and had inherited his fathers plans for invasion of Asia.
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Alexander the Great (356–323 B.C.), conquered the entire Persian Empire, from the Aegean Sea to India and around the Mediterranean to Egypt.
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Alexander was born 356 b.c. in Pella, Macedon (or Macedonia) in what is now part of Northern Greece.
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In 338 B.C. they marched south through Thermopylae, which they took after a stubborn resistance from its Theban garrison. They went on to occupy the city of Elatea, a few days march from both Athens and Thebes.