Alexander the Great
From Alternative History
Alexander died in 255 B.C and created a great empire including the Roman Empire, Carthage, Europe, Russia, West and East Africa, Manchuria, Bangladesh, Korea, Japan, India, Tibet, Arabia, Russia, Central Asia, Balkan States, and Mongolia
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[edit] Lord of Macedonia
Philip I had conquered all of Greece in 338 B.C. Philip had a smart, wise, almighty, clever, brave, and virtuous son named Alexander. Alexander was wise and studied military, influences, territories, math, science, geography, city planning, public speaking, and yes, fighting. Philip later died in 350 B.C., leaving his son to control.
[edit] Alexander's Empire
Alexander's empire in 85 years had all of Europe, North, West, and East Africa, Russia, Middle East, Central Asia, Mongolia, Western Southern Asia, Manchuria, Korea, Japan, India, parts of Southeast Asia and Bangladesh.
Alexander's Empire Campaigns: West
Alexander became emperor in 12 (young, but strong, clever and wise), and knew about the Persian wars. He started to build his own empire and be a world power, and yes, that's his dream. Alexander started to go into the West. There, when he entered Rome in 352 B.C., the Romans believed he was the son of Zeus and was accepted as emperor. Alexander had preserved all of Roman culture and made Latin, Macedonian, and Greek languages and writing. Alexander chose Rome capital and expanded it in 353 B.C. till it covered central Italy and became the biggest city in the world. Here's a story how it went quickly: Alexander prayed to the gods, then, made a wish in his dream. Finally, it came true. Alexander later found an island 5 months later called Iceland. He found volcanoes in the snow. Alexander later colonized there. His armies in 355 B.C. later battled Germanic barbarians and the Vikings. (see Wars with the Barbarians) His first battle was the Battle of Danube, which he overrun many barbarians, which were later overthrown. Although they had more soldiers than him, Alexander's clever planning won all battles, forcing their chiefs to flee for their lives. Finally, in 2 years, they were conquered. Alexander went East.
Alexander's Empire Campaigns: Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia
Alexander found an unknown territory in 378-Russia. His men found many invaders that lived in parts of Russia. Soon, after 2 years of war, this spelled the downfall of the Mongols and Huns, who never recovered. Soon, Alexander spent most of his life fighting tribes and barbarians for 3 years. Soon, Russia, Central Asia, and Mongolia became part of his empire. (see Hun and Mongol Downfall Start and Tribe Wars)
Alexander's Empire Campaigns- Persia
Alexander's next daring plan was to invade the Persians, Greece's determined enemy. (see Persia v.s. Alexander) The first battle was the Battle of Ossius, where Darius V was captured and killed even after a huge ransom was paid. In 380 B.C., Alexander set fire to Persepolis and carried its treasures to Rome. Later, the entire Persian empire fell in his hands. (also, see Greek Judah)
Alexander's Empire Campaigns- Arabia
(see Arabia's New Crisis) One of the worst was the campaigns in Arabia. Alexander had to cross the sand dunes of Arabia to reach the kingdoms. Worse, many men died of the heat, and were very few oasis. However, he did have the advantage to fight and eventually conquered them.
Alexander's Empire Campaigns-Africa: North, West, East
Alexander went to Egypt in 383 B.C., and saw the Sahara for his first time. The Egyptians declared him son of Egyptian God Amon and was accepted as pharaoh. (see Egypt and Him) He soon went west. Alexander battled the Carthaginians in the Punic War and had became a power of the Mediterranean. He went south and captured the African kingdoms and went back to Egypt to conquer East Africa. (see West and East Wars of Africa)
Alexander's Empire Campaigns: Southern Asia, Southeast Asia, Tibet, and the Pacific Far East
Alexander in age 27 had to move across the mountains, the difficult part. (see Climbing the mountains of Asia) Many men died, and got only a few reinforcements. Before this, he reached India, where his men fought war elephants on King Phorrus for their first time. (see Phorrus and the Macedonians). After India (along with Bangladesh) was conquered, Alexander was staring to get many reinforcements and added war elephants to his army. Also, after battling in the Langdore Wars, he received parts of Southern Asia.
Now for the real part! Alexander had to cross Tibet and the Himalayas, which were very difficult. There were avalanches, snowstorms, and landslides. Soon, they reached Tibet, which later conquered them in Alexander's age of 30. (see Tibetian Wars)
The Alexander moved east, and had Manchuria and Korea into the empire. The Han dynasty ruled there, but lost it instead. (see Han's Great Losses)
The most challenging campaigns of them all was in Japan. Japan had the most toughest soldiers of them all-the samurai. The samurai driven Alexander back five times, but later, with them short in food supply, they surrendered, and Japan became part of the Alexander's Empire in his age of 42.
[edit] Alexander's Goals
When Alexander became emperor, he had goals to make for himself. Borrowed while he was educated, he decided to create his plans and others no one used before. The nine goals were- 1.-Defeat Enemy Forces, 2.-Spread Greek, Macedonian, and Roman Ideas, 3.-Uses religion, and 4.-Adopt Foreign Ways
1.-Defeat Enemy Forces
Alexander's main goal was to create a great empire, but he had to defeat enemy forces. Alexander wanted to rule the world. He had clever planning and won every battle. Alexander the Great came as close as anyone was fulfilling his dream. Alexander wanted to put down rebellions, revolts, and wanted to gain more wealth and power. Alexander used wisdom, terror, and kindness to build a great empire. He burned towns and cities to the ground and their people were sold into slavery, and rebuilt damaged property. Towns and cities that surrendered could keep their government officials, and Alexander could make them more powerful. As emperor, he was a bold, smart, and clever general. His conquests united many people. But he did not wanted to destroy their civilization, instead, he would blend it into his civilization- Alexander. And the people were called Alexandrians. Soldiers were mighty and could stand anyone it its path. Soon, Alexander can conquer an empire
2.-Spread Greek, Roman, and Macedonian Ideas
Alexander's next goal was to spread Greek, Roman, and Macedonian culture in his empire he encountered. Alexander built great cities, and 7/16 were named after him- Alexandria of Alexandropolis. The cities have a middle name to make the city more clearer what it is. Alexander built Greek, Roman, and Macedonian cities. They had marketplaces, temples, and theaters. The first city he built was Rome. He expanded it many times and boasted lines of forts, casinos, Moorish-style castles, and ballrooms. Like every city, it had features. Temples were dedicated to Roman, Macedonian, Greek, African, Middle Eastern, and Asian gods and goddesses. Many cities were places of trading, learning, producing, military, and other things. Settlers flocked to his cities, and the settlers bought with them their way of life, laws, government, and literature. Because of him, he created ideas that spread through his empire.
Alexander's Goal 3.- Uses Religion
The third part of Alexander's plan was to involve religion. He did three ways in order to.
The first way was honoring gods from the people he conquered. African, Asian, European, Far Eastern, and Arabian gods were created like Roman and Greek gods. Alexander visited oracle sites. He built other of these sites, and priests were leaders of the temple, giving messages to the gods. Priests started to wear masks of the gods, and Alexander adopted ways of foreign ways of religion. For example, he adopted the way of burning a fire during a ceremony from the Persians. Soon, priests welcome him as "God's son".
The second way was encouraged the idea he was a god. People made statues of him and people worshiped it. Wearing a crown makes people think he is a god. Soon, he was accepted as Zeus's son.
The third way was giving Hebrews chances to practice their monotheism religions. Alexander never heard of it before, and decided to let only the Jews happen. Alexander set up synagogues and orthodox churches for them to worship. Jews living in Judah and Israel saw many Alexandrians speaking three languages, so they speak Jewish there. If they cant the Jews have to speak the three languages. Any Jew settling around the empire from their homeland felt Alexandrian culture so strong, they needed to make Greek, Latin, or Macedonian translation of the Bible and Torah. Alexander had used religion wisely in his empire more than anyone else.(but after Alexander, the law was changed, see Revolts of the Maccabees for more info)
Alexander's Goal 4.-Adopt Foreign Ways
As it said, Alexander didn't wanted to destroy other nation customs. He blended them together instead. Alexander adopted the Persian system of government. He allowed governors to run day-to-day business on their lands. He had to carefully appoint Alexandrians to head the army. He also made sure taxes were collected. Alexander borrowed many Persian customs. He wore Persian-style clothes, and received official visitors and Persian king would, in a luxurious tent. Tents were huge and enormously beautiful with 30 ft. columns with gold, silver, and precious stones of mosaics. Alexander demanded that visitors should greet hims in Persian style. A visitor should kneel in front of the throne, then Alexander raised his visitors' feet and kissed them, and called his visitors "Kinsman." (see other influences in Other Influences)
Other plans not in here are at Alexander's 5 Other Plans
[edit] Alexander Dies
After years of fighting, the exhausted troops refused to go any further
