Download e-book for kindle: Empire of Alexander the Great (Great Empires of the Past) by Debra Skelton,Pamela Dell

By Debra Skelton,Pamela Dell

ISBN-10: 1604131624

ISBN-13: 9781604131628

From the age of 20 till his demise at 32, Alexander the good and his armies from Greece swept throughout an enormous zone that integrated Persia, Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt. finally ruling an empire that stretched nearly 2 million sq. miles throughout 3 continents, Alexander revolutionized the way in which used to be waged and prolonged the impact of classical Greek tradition a long way past the borders of Greece and his local Macedonia. "Empire of Alexander the nice, Revised variation" seems at what made Alexander a super army tactician and a charismatic chief. It additionally explores what the japanese global realized via touch with Alexander, and what Alexander dropped at the West from the Persian Empire. Connections in our personal global to Alexander's empire comprise the legend of the Gordian knot, pearls, the Egyptian city of Alexandria, and the Septuagint, the 1st translation of the Torah from Hebrew.

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