The Rise of Macedon and the Conquests of Alexander the Great

To maintain hold over so large and disparate an empire required effective organization Central to the Achaemenid system was the person of the king himself

Before the reign of Alexander the Great, his father, Phillip II of Macedonia, ruled the Macedonian state and became one of the ancient

alexander the great Alexander's original plans included a conquest to the last centimeter of the East It is recorded in history that he stated his vision was to

alexander isak In 336 BC, King Phillip II was murdered by his own bodyguard and so the task of world domination