Alexander the Great ( Alexander III the Great , ancient Greek; presumably July 20/23 or October 6/10, 356 BC – June 10/13, 323 BC) – king Macedonia from the Argead dynasty (from 336 BC ), an outstanding commander, creator of a world power that collapsed after his death. Ascending the throne at the age of 20 after the death of his father, Philip II , he suppressed the uprising of he Thracians and re-subdued Greece, where the rebellious The bes were destroyed . In 334 BC. e. Alexander crossed over to Asia Minor , thus starting a war with Persian power. Under Granicus, he defeated the satraps , and under Issus (333 BC) – the king Darius III himself , after which he subdued Syria , Palestine and Egypt . In 331 BC. e. under Gaugamela in Mesopotamia, Alexander won a decisive victory.
Darius was later killed; Alexander, having occupied the interior regions of Persia, took the title of “king of Asia”, surrounded himself with representatives of the eastern nobility and began to…