Today in western civ, we began looking into chapter 5. This chapter deals with the great city of Athens losing the Peloponnesian War to Sparta and the vast kingdom of Macedonia taking over Greece. But the main point of the chapter that we are mainly looking at is Alexander the Great. And I will tell you this much, his name definitely suits him. In his late teens and early twenties, he has been given control of the great Macedonian society. And he definitely didn't act sheepishly with his newly gained power. He made his kingdom spread from Italy to present-day Afghanistan. That's amazing! And after he gained this new kingdom, he actually didn't want to use it for himself, he actually set out to find out about the people and tried to combine his Macedonian way of life with the Greek way. it was amazing! He even helped Athens go in and take over Persia! And you don't even want to know what happened to those people how didn't like Alexander. He showed that he was not one to mess with and had those who tried to over throw him, killed or tortured or even worse! He was definitely a great king! Unfortunately though, he died at a very young age and I bet you if he lived even longer, his kingdom would have spread and right now we could have probably been under the Macedonian rule!
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