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WARS FOUGHT AND DESCRIPTION
media type="youtube" key="Dsg32_EHf00&hl=en" height="355" width="425" this is Alexander the great in the great war in Asia

the Great conquered most of the world know to the ancient Greek. the map below shows how much land one can coquer in 15 years. media type="youtube" key="hc_qVDvSnVU&hl=en" height="355" width="425"After the death of Spitamenes and his marriage to Roxana (Roshanak in Bactrian) to cement his relations with his new Central Asian satrapies, in 326 BC Alexander was finally free to turn his attention to the Indian subcontinent. Alexander invited all the chieftains of the former satrapy of Gandhara, in the north of what is now Pakistan, to come to him and submit to his authority. Ambhi (Greek: Omphis), ruler of Taxila, whose kingdom extended from the Indus to the Jhelum (Greek:Hydaspes), complied. But the chieftains of some hill clans including the Aspasioi and Assakenoi sections of the Kambojas (classical names), known in Indian texts as Ashvayanas and Ashvakayanas (names referring to the equestrian nature of their society from the Sanskrit root word Ashva meaning horse), refused to submit.

Alexander personally took command of the shield-bearing guards, foot-companions, archers, Agrianians and horse-javelin-men and led them against the Kamboja clans—the Aspasioi of Kunar/Alishang valleys, the Guraeans of the Guraeus (Panjkora) valley, and the Assakenoi of the Swat and Buner valleys. Writes one modern historian: "They were brave people and it was hard work for Alexander to take their strongholds, of which Massaga and Aornus need special mention."[14] A fierce contest ensued with the Aspasioi in which Alexander himself was wounded in the shoulder by a dart but eventually the Aspasioi lost the fight; 40,000 of them were enslaved. The Assakenoi faced Alexander with an army of 30,000 cavalry, 38,000 infantry and 30 elephants.[15] They had fought bravely and offered stubborn resistance to the invader in many of their strongholds like cities of Ora, Bazira and Massaga. The fort of Massaga could only be reduced after several days of bloody fighting in which Alexander himself was wounded seriously in the ankle. When the Chieftain of Massaga fell in the battle, the supreme command of the army went to his old mother Cleophis (q.v.) who also stood determined to defend her motherland to the last extremity. The example of Cleophis assuming the supreme command of the military also brought the entire women of the locality into the fighting.[16] Alexander could only reduce Massaga by resorting to political strategem and actions of betrayal. According to Curtius: "Not only did Alexander slaughter the entire population of Massaga, but also did he reduce its buildings to rubbles." A similar slaughter then followed at Ora, another stronghold of the Assakenoi.

WEAPONS
the most of the weapon the Macedonian army used are spears, and huge shield





Interesting Facts

 * ~  || Who ||
 * ~  || Alexander the great ||
 * ~  || What ||
 * ~  || He conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greece ||
 * ~  || Where ||
 * ~  || Macedonia ||
 * ~  || Why ||
 * ~  || to conquer till the end of the world, to become a legend even greater then his father ||
 * ~  || How ||
 * ~  || with his mighty army, his horses and many weapons ||
 * ~  || [[image:http://s.wikispaces.com/s/rte/images/insert_table.gif]] ||

HIS LIFE
[|Stateira of Persia] || Alexander born in Pella, capital of Macedon, Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and of his wife Olympias. On his mother's side, he was a second cousin of Pyrrhus of Epirus, who would go on to become a celebrated general, there are notable examples of military genius on both sides of his family. According to Plutarch, his father was descended from Heracles through Karanus of Macedon and his mother descended from Aeacus through Neoptolemus and Achilles. Plutarch relates that both Philip and Olympias dreamed of their son's future birth. In Philip's dream, he sealed her womb with the seal of the lion. Surprised by this, he confer the seer Aristander of Telmessos, who made sure that his wife was pregnant and that the child would have the abilities like a lion. Another odd coincidence is that the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus was set afire on the night of his birth. Plutarch's explanation was that the Gods were too busy watching over Alexander to care for the temple.
 * ~ Born || [|July 20], [|356 BC] ||
 * ~ Birthplace || [|Pella], [|Macedon] ||
 * ~ Died || [|June 10], [|323 BC] (aged 32) ||
 * ~ Place of death || [|Babylon] ||
 * ~ Predecessor || [|Philip II] ||
 * ~ Successor || [|Alexander IV] ||
 * ~ Consort || [|Roxana of Bactria]
 * ~ Consort || [|Roxana of Bactria]
 * ~ Issue || [|Alexander IV] ||
 * ~ Father || [|Philip II of Macedon] ||
 * ~ Mother || [|Olympias of Epirus] ||  ||~   ||   ||~   ||   ||~   ||   ||~   ||   ||~   ||   ||~   ||   ||~   ||   ||~   ||   ||~   ||   ||~   ||   ||
 * ~ Reign || 336-323 ||

According to five historians of ancient times (Arrian, Curtius, Diodorus, Justin, and Plutarch), after his visit to the Oracle, rumors spread that the vision had discovered Alexander's father to be Zeus, instead of than Philip. In support of this, Plutarch claims that Philip avoided Olympias' bed because of her kindness for sleeping with snakes.

In his early life, Alexander was raised by his nurse Lanike, who was Cleitus' older sister. Later, Alexander was educated by a strict teacher: Leonidas, himself a relative of Olympias. Leonidas' strict ways are known to us through the extant record: reportedly, when Alexander threw a large amount of sacrificial incense into a fire, Leonidas reprimanded him, telling him that he could waste as much incense as he wished once he had conquered the spice bearing regions. Years later, following Alexander's campaign of Gaza, a city directly on the Persian spice trade route, the king sent back over 15 tons of myrrh to Leonidas as a reply. It was Aristotle, though, who was Alexander's most famous and important tutor. The Aristotle trained Alexander in rhetoric and literature, and stimulated his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy. His gift to Alexander, a copy of the Iliad, was purportedly among the young king's most prized possessions--and was kept under his pillow, along with a dagger.

When Alexander was ten years old, a Thessalian brought a horse of such quality to sell to Philip that it was labeled a prodigy. As it turned out, though, the horse was so wild that no man could control him. Young Alexander, realizing that the horse's own shadow was the source of its fear, went to the steed and turned him towards the sun. Upon doing so, the horse calmed down, and Alexander easily controlled and rode him. His father and other people who saw this were very impressed; Philip kissed him with tears of joy and said "My son, seek thee out a kingdom equal to thyself; Macedon has not room for thee." This horse was named Bucephalus, meaning "ox-headed"--though there is the possibility that the name refers to the brand that denoted the horse's origin. Bucephalus would be Alexander's companion throughout his journeys, and was truly loved: when the horse died (due to old age, according to Plutarch, for he was already 30; other sources claim that Bucephalus died of wounds sustained in a battle in India), Alexander named a city after him called Bocephia or Bucephala.

Alexander's actions were inspired: by a god=Dionysus, a demigod=Hercules, one hero= Achilles ,and one sovereign= Cyrus the Great- the Persian emperor.

During Philip's expedition against Byzantium in 340, Alexander, then sixteen years old was left in Macedonia in the charge of the royal seal; at that time, he was anything but idle: he managed to subjugate the rebellious Maedi, a Thracian tribe. He took their capital town by storm, drove out the barbarous inhabitants, and created a colony of several nations in their region, calling the new town Alexandropoulos. http://1stmuse.com/frames/