Alexander The Great- Justin Huang

Alexander the Great, also known as Alexander III of Macedon was the king of Macedonia.  According to wiki Alexander was the king of ancient Greek and took the throne in 323 BC.  Alexander was also known to be a conquer he focus heavily  onto his military strength. One of the nations that he conquered was the Achaemenid Empire, also known as the first Persian empire however it was also a Iranian empire and was called Persia because of the founding Emperor Cyrus the Great. After his death years later people began to speak out calling the country Iran. Iran at the time of Alexander the Great’s ruled was filled with riches which in turn lead to lots of invades by other nations. Alexander himself had invaded the Achaemenid Empire to pay his military by destroying and pillaging this is also what had lead him to begin the conquest of Persia. He fought with King Darius the III and successfully took over all of Persia as well as the start the invasion of India, however Alexander did celebrate after the conquering of Persia similar to the story of Persepolis how they spent an insane amounts of money that should have been used for taxes. With his conquest’s and death following, there was no emperor to hold the nations together. The Complete Persepolis talks about how the mother also had wanted to revolt against the current leader of their country and explains to Marjane that they were living in poverty due to their inadequate leader.