Notes on Alexander's life

King Phillip of Macedon

·                     Father of Alexander the Great

·                     had many wives

·                     Brilliant Military Mind

·                     Didn’t like his son Alexander

Olympia

·                     Mother of Alexander the Great

·                     Better relationship with Alexander than his father

Alexander

•          Convinced people he was the son of Zeus because he didn't like his father.
•          Took over in 334 BC at the age of 20
•     favorite book was the Iliad and had it him at all time

Leonidas

·                     Alexander's tutor

·                     Alex wasn't a good student

Aristotle tutored Alex in

·                     Politics 

·                     Drama

·                     Poetry

·                     Science

·                     Philosophy 

                     King Phillip dies in 336 B.C.

·                     He was assassinated by his own body guard, who was in love with him, and became jealous so he killed him

·                      Bucephalus was Alex's horse

·                     Bucephalus in Greek means "ox-head"

·                     King Philip may have been assassinated by the  Persian Empire

·                     Alex faught against king Porus from India 

·                     Alex may have died from the flu or infections

·                     Alex died

·                     Alex had a son, Alexander the IV or forth, who was born after his death

·                     Alex said that the strongest gets to be King next

·                     All faught over who was going to be King and the empire got divided

·                     Alexander the Great was the first King of Asia

·                     He conquered the Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt

·                     He ruled the largest empire - Macedonia

·                     Roxana was one of Alex's main wife 
In india was the battle when usefins died in the battle of aparasis