Alexander+the+Great

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← That is a painting of Alexander the Great. 

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Alexander the Great is said to have come close to conquering the civilized world. The son of King Phillip II of Macedon and Olympias, Alexander was taught by the philosopher Aristotle and first led troops at age of 18. After his father's death, he defeated the Persians and conquered much of the then known world. ======

 Alexander  was born in 356 B.C. at Pella, the capital of Macedonia, an ancient kingdom on the Greek peninsula. 

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While attending a private party hosted by his friend, Medius of Larisa, he got a really high fever. As soon as he drank from his cup he "//shrieked aloud as if smitten by a violent blow".// The fever got stronger by the day, up to the the point where he could hardly move or speak. He finally died from the illness on June 7, 323 B.C.. Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king and the great connquerer of the Persian Empire, died the age of 33 without designating a succesor to the empire. ======

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Alexander was never close to his father. When Philip II, his dad, married a Madcedonian woman named Cleopatra, his family was split apart. At the wedding banquet, Cleopatra's father said something about Philip fathering a "legitimate" heir, one that was pure Macedonian (Olympias wasn't Macedonian). Alexander was offended and threw his cup at the man, and some sources say Alexander killed him. Enraged, Philip stood up and charged at Alexander, only to trip and fall on his face because he was drunk. Alexander, rather upset at the scene, is to have shouted: ====== <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//"Here is the man who was making ready to cross from Europe to Asia, and who cannot even cross from one table to another without losing his balance."// <span style="color: rgb(103, 29, 29);"> //←// That is just a cool thing a I made about Alexander the Great. Ya like it? <span style="color: rgb(103, 29, 29);">