Alexander was a young monarch more than a hundred years before China's Qin Shi Huang, probably in the fourth century BC, at the junction of Eurasia, a young monarch appeared, he was Alexander.
Alexander spent ten years really incorporating ancient India, ancient Egypt, ancient Persia, ancient Babylon, and ancient Greece under his command, during which he also had many titles, he praised himself a god, and ancient Egypt called it Pharaoh.
But just ten years later, everything he had created was gone, as if it were a dream.
First, the empire emerged
Alexander was born in 356 BC, and his father, Philip II, was also a visionary and wise king.
The Kingdom of Macedonia created by Philip II became an important state in Greece after his military reforms, and later Philip II after several large-scale wars brought most of Greece under the Kingdom of Macedonia.
After Alexander's birth, Philip II had high hopes for him, and Philip II assigned Alexander as his teacher, the most famous philosopher of the time, Aristotle.
As Philip II prepared to march for the ancient Persian Empire, he was assassinated and fell in a pool of blood when Alexander turned 20.
After Alexander became king of the Macedonian kingdom, only two years later, he began to attack the Persian Empire in the east with the same ambition and ambition as his father.
It is said that Alexander gave all his property and land to the poor before attacking the Persian Empire.
At that time, people wondered Alexander: You gave all this property to the poor, what did you leave behind?
Alexander said: I have left myself with "hope" that hope will conjure up infinite treasures for me.
Within a few years, Alexander conquered Persia and forced King Darius III to death.
Just as Alexander occupied Afghanistan and India and prepared to continue his offensive to the east, Alexander was forced to stop his conquest and return to Persia because the soldiers were so dissatisfied that he refused to move forward.
At this time, Alexander relied on his teacher Aristotle's administrative education to allow him to begin a series of integration of Greek culture and Central Asian culture, thus creating a Hellenistic era of nearly 300 years.
Second, Alexander with a complex personality
Alexander's name still resounds around the world, and he is regarded as the earliest leader of Western history.
Every time people think of Alexander, they think of Hitler and Napoleon, because they both share common character flaws.
Alexander's character is as passionate as fire and gentle as water.
Admirers of Alexander consider him to be a righteous, temperate, trustworthy, and loving man, but even the most perfect person is flawed, and Alexander has many flaws in his character, he can be tolerant of his defeated men, and at the same time can show a murderous side.
During Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire, King Darius was killed by one of his own governors, who had always hated capricious and scheming villains, and when the governor surrendered to Alexander, Alexander did not accept the traitor, but ordered his execution.
But when Alexander attacked the city of Thebes, he ordered the slaughter of the city, sold a large number of its inhabitants into slavery, and after conquering Persia, mutilated a large number of children.
Once Alexander killed his cronie and lifesaver Cretus after getting drunk, but when Alexander sobered up, he deeply regretted his actions.
As Aristotle's apprentice, Alexander respected the cultural world, but such a person who respected cultural people ordered the burning of the magnificent Persian royal palace.
It is said that Alexander ordered the burning of the Persian palace in order to curry favor with a prostitute named Tysith.
The prostitute said to Alexander: Would you like to set fire to the palace of Persia?
Unexpectedly, Alexander really ordered the arson for fun, and when he woke up from drinking, Alexander regretted his reckless actions.
Third, the mystery of Alexander's sudden death
Alexander died suddenly in June 323 BC at the age of 33.
Alexander's vast empire, like the founder of the empire, died after a brief period of glory.
Because Alexander died at a young age and did not appoint a successor, after his death, there was a fierce political struggle in the empire, Alexander's mother, children, and wife were killed in the struggle for power, and several of his powerful subordinates began to divide the territory and divide the empire he created.
Alexander's father Philip II also died suddenly, and when Philip II decided to attack the Persian Empire, he was assassinated by a nobleman, and the purpose of this assassination was very simple, that is, to prevent Philip II from attacking Persia.
It is said that the person who ordered Philip II's assassination was Alexander's mother, who was originally a beautiful woman, but behaved perversely, and later generations believed that she herself had a very strong witch color, so she lost Philip II's favor.
Alexander's mother, fearing that her presence would affect Alexander's succession to the throne, found someone to assassinate Philip II, of course, all this is speculation for later generations.
According to historical records, we find that Alexander had a period of crazy drinking before his death, he had a high fever because of excessive drinking, and after the high fever, he continued to drink because of thirst, which eventually led to Alexander's sudden death.
Later generations speculated that Alexander died of liver failure caused by excessive drinking.
Some suspected Alexander of being gay, and although he had a wife and son, this did not prevent him from maintaining a close relationship with his close friend Hephaestion.
Hephaestion and Alexander grew up and he himself married a Persian princess, but in 324 BC, Hephaeston died of illness, and Alexander died of grief in just one year.
Summary: Alexander, as the most famous conqueror in Western history, has always been a mystery about his death, and even more bizarrely, 600 years after Alexander's death, his body suddenly disappeared.
If Alexander had not died, perhaps history would have been rewritten by him.
It is said that Alexander once had a plan to change the world, in which it involved military transformation, port construction, and city construction, and if Alexander did not die, perhaps the city he built would increase immigration between Europe and Africa, and also prepare the world for the "Greek state".
Alexander's plan may not make sense, but it also gives us a sense of the ambition and ambition of the youngest conqueror, perhaps his very existence is a mystery, who has always wanted to catch up with his predecessors, and at the same time wants to create an unparalleled achievement that future generations cannot catch up.
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