Alexander the Great: Life and Reign of the King of the Macedonian Empire

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Do you believe Alexander the Great really was great? Let us know why or why not!

[@ermioniburgess8720]

Yes.Because the fulfilment prophecy about him in the Bible when Daniel the Prophet prophecy about him.And because of him the old testament translated to the Greek in Alexandria and also new testament written in the koini Greek that still used today the Greeks in their churches.

[@karthikparameswaran7813]

Yes, Alexander deserved the title "The Great" for many reasons: 1. According to the ancient historian Plutarch when Alexander went to Delphi for his future predictions, the she-priest said, "Thou art invincible my son." The moment he heard the word "invincible" he assumed that he would never be defeated and returned to Macedonia in excitement. 2. He was famous for his three major battles at (a) Granicus (b) Issus (c) Gaugamela( it was the bloodiest battle in the human history)

[@evnstvn58]

He was great indeed.. in the sense of how young he was and, how fast he conquered the then known world...But, history then records a moment in history where, he was supposed to have hesitated about venturing deeper into Africa where an AFRICAN QUEEN awaited his aggression with what was said to be a million warriors! I wonder what contributed to that hesitation?🤣

[@karthikparameswaran7813]

@@evnstvn58 But the ancient historian Plutarch has mentioned no such incident of Alexander and his hesitancy to visit South Africa.

[@abhishekk8444]

Alexander was defeated by Chandragupta maurya And he got a bloody nose, and returned to his home being scared

[@klaudioabazi4478]

This Young Man had insatiable ambition, and relentless energy. His Goal was to have ever lasting fame. In the end, that is just what he got.

[@karthikparameswaran7813]

But still at the time of his death he planned for a great campaign in Arabia and beyond when he developed a sudden fever and died a few days later.

[@emadgeo]

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[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thank you so much for your kind words. It is much appreciated! 😊

[@stevenbrown9275]

Another excellent, concise video. Thank you for all your work.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

We are so glad you keep enjoying our videos Steven, thanks for your ongoing support!

[@NNive]

You're a great storyteller! The videos keep getting better.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Glad you like them!

[@vmmd8229]

Came from a news of alexander the great and still watching till this days!

[@Tekmirion]

The Greatest Greek of all until today and not only!

[@boskomarkoski1503]

Happy Birthday to the Great Macedonian King.

[@flame_of_the_west8909]

Good thing he was born and spread our hellenic civilization.

[@congiantsos1379]

Yes Great Macedonian who was proud of his Hellenic blood and united the rest of his Greek brothers .. and spread Hellenism

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

MAKEDONIJA EXIST 25 CENTURIES from KING FILIP. Oto german make Greece before 190 years.

[@MrJonLott]

I love the videos you make, especially about the ancient world. Alexander was the GOAT! Keep up the great work!

[@karthikparameswaran7813]

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[@JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse]

Athens, Sparta and Thebes all tried to conquer Greece and failed although Sparta managed to conquer all of southern Greece including Athens. Spartans had enslaved the Greeks of the Peloponnese into a slave class called Helots. Philip of Macedon though wanted to unite all the independent Greek states, he wasn't interested in conquering, his attitude was different since he considered Greece the mother country so his intention was to bring order to Greece and thereby uniting Greece into an Imperial Greece.

[@tawan20082008]

thanks! Can we get some videos on the Medes, Elam, and Parthia?

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

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[@sabatabar5]

Nice ❤ thanks for your great job

[@chamythemage22]

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[@andrewmateo1772]

Wondered what else he can do if he doesn't die at age 32. Maybe he will conquer every empire in the world. Making him Kings of Kings.

[@lumbricusterrestris7813]

thank you!

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@jojemarviray6013]

A very beautiful portrait at your left side. Who are they? Can I have a softcopy of it? Thanks

[@mahadevvaka]

Alexander 3 of Macedon fought many battles in his 13 years of span (336-323BCE). But he's next campaign is Mighty India 🇮🇳 . It is the only campaign that Alexander takes wrong step and it is failed invasion. The most famous battle is Battle of hydaspes(jhelum river) Alexander fought with small Kingdom Puru Kingdom King Porus Porus win that battle.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

He definitely had a difficult time in India. Thanks for watching!

[@lamastu2156]

Alexander won the the battle against Porus. The Indo-Greek Kingdom came after with ruler the Menander. Go read history. Modern Indians nationalism teach propagandas. I think is ridiculous to feel offended for something who happen 2500 years ago and especially when the kingdom of Porus was part of Persian empire

[@Alexander-kj1bk]

​@@lamastu2156yes

[@alejandrocastellanos250]

Yes and Will continue to be the Best. It is in the bible that he conquer all the earth. Daniel had a Dreams and he reveal the Dreams of nabocunosour had. He Was the 🐆 leopard with four heads and four wings .

[@vangelisskia214]

"As members of the Greek race and speakers of the Greek language, the Macedonians shared the ability to initiate ideas and create political forms." N G L Hammond (1992), 'The Miracle that was Macedonia', p 206 "We must also remember that Philip and Alexander were Greeks, descended from Heracles, they wished to be recognized by Greeks as benefactors of the Greeks, even as Heracles had been." N G L Hammond (1989), 'Alexander the Great' p. 257

[@Mubashshirahmad697]

Great way of Explanation.. Love from India🇮🇳😊❣

[@Alen4382]

No

[@Alen4382]

No

[@Alen4382]

No

[@Alen4382]

No

[@Alen4382]

No

[@jayshreepandey510]

Alexander the great 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@evanarg1478]

🇬🇷 ΜΕΓΑΣ ΑΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ!! 🇬🇷

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

ALEXANDER = MACEDONIAN TSAR ! ! !

[@karthikparameswaran7813]

Thanks for the concise video.

[@diogorodrigues10]

LOL

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@Στέφ-θ3ζ]

Imagine what Buchephalas's eyes saw being the horse of Alexander the Great....FOREVER GREEK LEGEND

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

ALEXANDER THE GREAT IS MACEDONIAN. VERY NICE ! ! !

[@ozyfran72]

Nice video, love Alexander’s story. For the question, someone like Julius Caesar believed Alexander was really great, but not so much about Pompey

[@karthikparameswaran7813]

@Seth The King But Julius Caesar wanted more and more power. The ancient historian named Gaius Suetonius recounts Caesar feeling "remorse" on seeing the statua of Alexander. He also said to himself that by the time of his age he had conquered almost half of the known world 🌎 and that Caesar did achieve a little. He wanted to be as famous as Alexander-The Great.

[@poonamkumari2229]

could you make a video of Ramayan

[@alexanderpaleologos1218]

He wasn't the son of zeus but son of phillip ll. This was a crazy thought, or rumour. He was a very powerful like All before him

[@kanhaibhatt913]

Only Greek sources talk about the victory over King Porus. Not a single Indian source talks about it, or of King Porus or of any one called Alexander. They mention Seleucus, however, and the Greeks, but no Alexander. Apart from that, the army of the Nanda empire was enormous, so its likely that the Greeks were disheartened by its power, and didnt consider it worthwhile to march on. Greek writers had a tendency to embellish and we are not obligated to believe any of them. This whole 'army was exhausted' thing seems like a coping mechanism by the Greeks, as any army which leaves home should be mentally prepared to go anywhere, and take on any enemy, knowing full well they might not come back.

[@paulosoares157]

Great warior and strategist but his Idea of being god or semigod despicable....

[@karthikparameswaran7813]

Rightly said.

[@ghostofathens6600]

Alexander the great the greatest Greek leader

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

ALEXANDER --- MACEDONIAN TSAR ! ! !

[@ghostofathens6600]

@@tatjanavelkova5814 no you monkey no real Greek

[@zachantao3701]

imagine being buried alive while paralysed that would be terrifying

[@Alen4382]

Alexander

[@alexanderpaleologos1218]

ACHILLIES WAS HIS ANCESTOR AND BLOOD LINE THROUGH OLYMPIA HALF OF COURSE AND THROUGH HIS FATHER MAKETHNON AND CORINTHIAN /SPARTAN BLOOD LINE. Phillip ll OF MACEDON WAS half Makethnon with Corinthian /spartan blood line. This is why if you look closely, you will notice that he is a split image of achillies and even Leonidas of Sparta.

[@francespanos288]

A VERY MIXT UP STORY HE WAS GREEK SON OF ZEUS OR WAS KING OF MACEDONIA CAN NOT BE BOUTH

[@alive4774]

he was the best macedonian emperor

[@vasilis_t4608]

Yes!🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

YES ! ! MACEDONIAN EMPEROR.

[@johnbilchuris9728]

Alexander Spread Macedonian culture,,if you're going to speak on something make sure you know what your talking about, Alexander conquered the Greeks so how can he be Greek.. don't make sense..he was Macedonian & the Greeks were under Macedonian rule.🤨

[@tedmink7568]

*Macedon was a Greek City state.* Alexander united all Greek city states as one country and spread Greek influence to the rest of his empire.

[@JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse]

Thats a silly question, all the Greek states were at war with each other to prevent any one state from conquering and controlling the whole of Greece. They wanted to maintain the status quo whereby no Greek state would take control and rule the others. Philip and Alexanders policy was to unite all of the Greek states into a single monolithic imperial Greece. And Philip succeded.

[@johnbilchuris9728]

Stop talking shit brother,Alexander , Phillip & the MACEDONIANS were hated by the Greeks they even called them babarians (no greeks) stop playing with me brother just read arrian history of Alexander it's all thier in black & white.Greeks & MACEDONIANS TWO different people's.👏

[@GR-vm9qb]

​@@JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouseείσαι μεγάλο αλάνι!

[@JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse]

@@johnbilchuris9728 SPARTANS were also hated by ALL the Greeks. They had conquered all of southern Greece turning the population into a slave class called Helots. Spartans eventually conquered Athens and dismantled the Athenian Empire, this was the end of the Golden age of Greece. Athenians also called the Spartans barbarians. The Athenians and the SPARTANS were TWO different peoples. The SPARTANS were DORIC Greeks (like the MACEDONIANS) whilst the Athenians were IONIAN Greeks -a mix of Pelasgians and Mycenaeans.

[@vangelisskia214]

".. do not forget Greece, Alexander ..It was for her sake that you launched your whole expedition, to add Asia to Greece .." Arrian [Anabasis of Alexander 4.11.7] «.. τῆς Ἑλλάδος μεμνῆσθαί σε ἀξιῶ, ὦ Αλέξανδρε ἧς ἕνεκα ὁ πᾶς στόλος σοι ἐγένετο, προσθεῖναι τὴν Ἀσίαν τῇ Ἑλλάδι ..» Ἀρριανός [Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 4.11.7]

[@taniaharrington4297]

I think he was a looney. I am renaming him 'Alexander the Mad'!

[@realtalks79]

You can't say that Alexander was never defeated.His battle with porus still has many theories about his defeat

[@TheTrueGeorge]

Great story, but it would be nice if you could say it without thirsting over the guy every 5 seconds

[@wardafournello]

Alexander the Great was not just a conqueror. His purpose was to exchange values ​​and knowledge, resulting in the prevalence of Greek civilization and the creation of the Hellenistic era. Scientific sequence in the campaign of Alexander the Great: Doctors: Drakon ,Glaukias , Kritodemos, Filippo the acarnanian ,and Ippoktates son of Ippocrate. Historians,Topographers: Aristovoulos kassandrephs , Kallisthenes nephew of Aristoteles. Painters, poets, musicians: Athenodoros from Thessaly ,Lykon ,Apelles ,Lysippos,Aristonikos. Fortune tellers , Prophets : Aristandros , Kleomenes from Sparta.

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

before 25 centuries FILIP MACEDONIAN KINGDOM ! ! !

[@DustinBarlow8P]

I see a lot of similarities with Alexander's Empire and the later Holy Roman Empire. If you don't have a strong Emperor that can control your larger than life Counts, you will fall very quickly, but Alexander did it, and made it look easy.

[@veronicaarthurs7013]

The Roman Empire was not holy. Study more. Heard about the Dark Ages. Millions of Christian. Bible were taken, pause on science. Read what they did to Galleo. It's history..

[@Proektot]

Get your facts straight. Aristotle and Alexander were Macedonian and not Hellenic (Greeks didn't exist in that time). They just were part of the Hellenistic culture, and used their written language (as today I'm using English, and we are part of the western culture) because Macedonian language didn't have it's own alphabet and was not known to the world in that time.

[@chrisnivo]

As Macedonians they were Greeks, the Hellenistic period begins during Alexander's time. Splitting hairs here

[@hellenic300]

They spoke greek and had a greek alphabet, hence why their coins of that time had greek writing. Give it up, the ancient Macedonians have no connection to North Macedonians at all. You government even confirmed this. Embrace your rich Slavic heritage, it's nothing to be ashamed of.

[@megasalexandrostv7077]

The Macedonian Language had its own alphabet. I'd advise you look at the Pella Curse Tablet, Coins, Pottery and other archaeological evidence that all indicates the native Macedonian dialect was Greek.

[@hellenic300]

@@megasalexandrostv7077 hahahaha yup the tablet is written in Greek. I can Guarantee you it wasn't written in the Slavic alphabet...🤭😅🤣😂

[@s3dmic]

Finally, a smart person

[@Streetw1s3r]

Alexander was great, but he wasn't Greek.

[@MrLuku84]

What do you mean, he wasn't greek? What was he, any idea?

[@xxnetherxx1]

Found the judeo-slav.

[@Streetw1s3r]

@@MrLuku84 There was no such thing as a Greek nationality and Macedonians originally were not even Hellenic. (Also Hellenic and Greek are two separate things, one being an ancient religion and the other being a new Christian nationality mostly made up of former Albanian/Arvanites, Romans, Ottomans, and Slavs)

[@Streetw1s3r]

@@xxnetherxx1 I'm not a Slav you racist.

[@JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse]

@@Streetw1s3r Yes their was a Greek [Hellenic] ethnicity. All the city states of the Greek peninsula had that sense of Hellenic identity and proudly proclaimed that they were Greeks. Especially the Macedonians who proudly and fiercely proclaimed that they were Greeks. And according to all historians today the Macedonians were northern Greeks. End of story.

[@katjageos3857]

Great Aleksander is from north father filip maqedoni, , mother olimpia from Empiri of Albanian..

[@JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse]

There is no such name as Olimpa. Her name was Olympias and she was a princess of the Greek tribe of Mollosians

[@katjageos3857]

@@JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse yo can read Testament original Nadin Lucia historion.. for great Alexander

[@chrisnivo]

Olympia was a Mollosian princess which was a Greek state in Epirus, how do you get Albanian from that?

[@JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse]

@@katjageos3857 Mollosians were Greek speakers, all historians are agreed on that. Read N G L Hammond.

[@gregntavlis6521]

Τι άλλο θα ακούσουμε ρε φίλε

[@arthurnas3941]

Aleander the great was Lucifers son so he did his dirty deeds dun der deeds so after that there was no need for him any more to be a king all should l say a God

[@mrugesh73]

He must be a barbarian and ruthless king to win so many expeditions.... Pity that we call any such despot... The great

[@davinstan4301]

Call him what you want to. Who he was as a person does not negate the fact that he was the greatest General of all time. That is why he has the Moniker the Great.

[@archivesoffantasy5560]

@@davinstan4301 greatest of all time is debatable, because he was left a good army by his father. Subutai conquered more land, Khalid started with a lot less, Napoleon won more battles against opponents with a stronger will to not quit. Alexander’s case is so astounding because he became King of Macedonian, Ruler of Greece, Pharaoh of Egypt, Emperor of Persia, never lost a battle, founded cities that Stand to this day and did it all by the time he was twenty five! Being dead by 32. Every general after him aspired to be like him.

[@stevecarnes3541]

Historical context. Please, don't look at ancient history through the lens of the modern world.

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

MACEDONIAN HISTORY 25 CENTURIES ! ! another... q q .

[@mariasanta7853]

Great video, as always, although it would be great if you mentioned directly he was gay.

[@congiantsos1379]

Why say he was gay.. he had 3 wives ... Dont confuse "love "for his best friend as sexuall

[@PonAscun]

@@congiantsos1379 And don't confuse wives with love. Please, read into the topic. He was renowned for surrounding himself with a lot of females, but as friends and not lovers. Marriage must have been a legal formality and a "must" for him. He was actually in love with boys.

[@poppycalliope6793]

Amazing what will be said by clueless people.

[@congiantsos1379]

@@PonAscun ur facts a based on what ? Ur own homoerotic fantasies ?

[@vasilis_t4608]

@@congiantsos1379 bro just look at her profile man.. She is prop still virgin

[@lamastu2156]

Alexander never spread the idea that is demigod, on the contrary. Read his wishes before he die. Yes he found many cities with his name. He was the founder, he deserves. That time every new city was called after a great leader. And no he didn't had megalomania he wanted revenge, as Macedon was the Greek kingdom who suffer the most from Persians then any else. Alexander had the same feeling as his hero, Achilles. Rage for revenge

[@tatjanavelkova5814]

before 25 centuries PHILIP KING ON MAKEDONIJA. ALEXANDER THE GREAT TSAR ON MAKEDONIJA ! ! !