EMILY

• Alexanders Conquests
• born in Pella, capital of Macedonia
• son of Phillip II
• When he was 13, Philip hired Aristotle to be Alexanders personal tutor
• started in Macedonia and went to Egypt and then to Mesopotamia and to Persia and bactra
• Conquests
• first he attacked Thessaly
• in 335 he defeated the Thracian, up through the Danube river
• next he defeated and crushed the illyranius
• Alexander declared war on Persia in 334 BC by defeating Persia ?
• Alexander traveled southward where he defeated king Darius III 
• next he conquered tyre
• then he capture Gaza
• then he traveled to Egypt that gave him control of the mediteranean east side ?
• after Alexander spent about a year organizing all for his lands an preparing for his next invasions
• arrived in Babylonia 
• died at age of 32 from a fever
• after his empire died, his empire was divided into four kingdoms
• final facts
• Alexander was known as one of the greatest leaders and had many, many conquests
• forever be in the history books
• liked to mix the cultures together that he conquered

1. How old was he when he went on his first conquest?
2. what was his goal?

I give Emily a 96% because she had good information.