Alexander the great

Alexander III of Macedon, known as Alexander the Great, was one of the most extraordinary persons of all time. He was a military commander at the age of 18, king at 20, and ruler of Greece, western Asia, and Egypt at 25. He died at the age of 32, leaving

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Alexander died in Babylon in 323 BC, before realizing a series of planned campaigns that would have begun with an invasion of Arabia.

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Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, in Babylon at the age 32 from a fever.

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In the winter of 327/326 BC, Alexander personally led a campaign against these clans; the Aspasioi of Kunar valleys, the Guraeans of the Guraeus valley, and the Assakenoi of the Swat and Buner valleys.

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Alexander defeated the forces of the Persian king Darius III at Issus in 333 B.C., and some of the Persian royal treasure, badly needed by Alexander, fell into his hands. Darius' offer to divide the empire with Alexander was refused.

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When Philip (Alexander's dad) was assassinated in 336 B.C., Alexander became king of Macedon and inherited his father's plans for an invasion of Asia.

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Alexander was born in 356 B.C. in Pella, Macedon (or Macedonia), in what is now part of northern Greece but was then a separate kingdom.

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