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Year 4 are finding out about Alexander the Great!

I this wiki we are going to tell people about Alexander the Great as part of our history topic. We started by doing some research online using simple wikipedia. We then split the content up so that different children would be writing things. Here is our brainstorm that we used to help us.



Alexander the Great ALEXANDER THE GREAT!

Alexander III of Macedon, is more commonly known as Alexander the Great. Alexander was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia in July 356 BC. His dad was called Philip II of Macedon and his wife Olympias. Alexander was educated by philosopher Aristotle. Philip was in killed 336 BC and Alexander took over a powerful kingdom. He quickly dealt with his enemies at home and reasserted Macedonian power within Greece. He set out to conquer the massive Persian Empire.

Against overwhelming odds, he led his army to win battles across the Persian territories of Egypt without suffering a single defeat. His greatest big battle was at the Battle of Gaugamela, in what is now northern Iraq, in 331 BC.

Over the next eight years, as a smart king, Alexander led his army a further 11,000 miles, amazingly establishing over 70 cities. He also created an empire that stretched across three continents and two million square miles (approximately). The entire area from Greece in the west, north to the Danube, all the way to south Egypt and as far to the east as the Indian Punjab, was linked together in a vast international network. Alexander was acknowledged as a military genius who always led an example, his belief in his own indestructibility meant he was often fairly reckless with his own life and for those of his hard-working soldiers. His huge army only refused to follow him once in 13 years. Alexander died in Babylon in 323 BC of a fever.