Alexander the Great Project

1) Does Alexander deserve to be called "Great"?

Alexander deserves to be called great in many ways, he was a young man when he became king but, he was "great" as people would say. Alexander to me is considered great because he was a great king and warrior. When Alexander became king his first objective was to strengthen his community. As a king he found many great treasures on his expeditions. One being he had found about half a billion dollars, this was more income of Athens in there 300 year age. Another good thing that makes him great was that he was very patient. Alexander wanted to kill Darius and take his crown, but before rushing headlong to him he was patient and secured his position in his plan. Another big reason for Alexander being so great was that he defeated many cities like Persia, India, and even the Indus River. His fathers plan he concluded and also made it better. Alexander is overall pretty great in my mind and i think he deserves his name. In the end of Alexander won many victories and kept fighting. He won spurs of wars and inherited a magnificent army with his greatness.


2) What can one learn about the values of society based on their views of greatness?

One can learn about the values of society based on their views of greatness by, the thought of life without the greatness, how would their life be if the greatness was gone? They can learn from that because they would think of how their life would be different and how their life would have changed overtime. Greatness in life and society is an important thing to live by because greatness brings you happiness. Macedonia was a great community and they lived in a great place they had feature they needed, It was ruled by Alexander the Great and taken over by the Ottoman Empire but imagine if Alexander never became king how would their greatness of society and values change without their wonderful, great king Alexander? 
Alexander died from fever on day 1 of the fever, it had just arrived. by day 9-10 he had passed away. The Macedonians king had passed away and was gone. It was a terrible time for their community. 


3) Do time and distance impact someone’s popular perception?

In the Pella region Alexander the Great the later king of Macedonia was born on July 20, 356 B.C. When his father died Alexander was wanted the throne to be his with any means necessary. The Macedonian army was garnered up with much support of Alexander. Back then this most likely gave him fame and affection because he was making his troops better which made his army better which made his community better and much more feared then when his father was ruling. In this time of 2014 this would cause controversy against our world and community. There would be many that say it was wrong and many who would say it was right, and i'm sure this happened back then too but in today's day people are picky and want perfection. So necessarily the time and distance do impact someones popular perception back then it was good and in the present now it would have many mixed emotions.



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