Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great (*356; r. 336-323): the Macedonian king who defeated his Persian colleague Darius III Codomannus and conquered the Achaemenid Empire. During his campaigns, Alexander visited a.o. Egypt, Babylonia, Persis, Media, Bactria, the Punjab, and the valley of the Indus. In the second half of his reign, he had to find a way to rule his newly conquered countries. Therefore, he made Babylon his capital and introduced the oriental court ceremonial, which caused great tensions with his Macedonian and Greek officers. A short biography can be found here.

1 Youth	7 The Levant	13 The Punjab
2 Restoring order in Greece	8 Son of Ammon	14 The return
3 The Persian campaign	9 Assyria and Babylonia	15 Lord of all
4 From Caria to Pamphilia	10 The end of Persia	16 Death in Babylon
5 The Anatolian highland	11 King of Asia	17 Civil war
6 Issus	12 The way to dusty death	18 The fourth beast
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