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Anyone looking at the map of the time can understand why he was called the great, no matter if that would be right or wrong morally.
by arisAlexis 2y ago
Anyone looking at the map of the time can understand why he was called the great, no matter if that would be right or wrong morally.
- NKosmatos 2y agoComplimentary map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#/media/File:MacedonEmpire.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great#/media/Fil...
- cryptonector 2y agoExactly. It's "the Great" because of what he did, not whether it was moral or right or whether he inherited the war machine that made it possible. Phillip built a war machine that could subjugate all of Greece. Alexander used it to do just that[*] and then to take over all of Persia (and then some) large as it was. Phillip had not ordered this. Phillip probably talked about this, but he was gone before Alexander started the war against Darius -- Alexander could have stopped short. At the very least Alexander had no fear, and Persia's size, and the size of Darius' army did not hold him back in any way. [*] Well, "subjugate" -- he let the city states have a great deal of autonomy. And either because the Thebans destroyed Sparta, or because Alexander destroyed Thebes, or both, the wars in Greece stopped.