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Conquering the Middle East: The Lives and Legacies of Alexander the Great, Saladin and Genghis Khan

Conquering the Middle East: The Lives and Legacies of Alexander the Great, Saladin and Genghis Khan

Charles River

Paperback

Military BiographiesMedieval & Renaissance History

ISBN10: 1986130177
ISBN13: 9781986130172
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 2 2018
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.38 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
*Includes paintings and busts depicting important people, places, and events.
*Discusses both common legends and little known facts about the lives of each conqueror.
*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.

Over the last 2,000 years, ambitious men have dreamed of forging vast empires and attaining eternal glory in battle, but of all the conquerors who took steps toward such dreams, none were ever as successful as antiquity's first great conqueror. Leaders of the 20th century hoped to rival Napoleon's accomplishments, while Napoleon aimed to emulate the accomplishments of Julius Caesar. But Caesar himself found inspiration in Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), the Macedonian King who managed to stretch an empire from Greece to the Himalayas in Asia at just 30 years old. It took less than 15 years for Alexander to conquer much of the known world. As fate would have it, Alexander died of still unknown causes at the height of his conquests, when he was still in his early 30s. Although his empire was quickly divided, his legacy only grew, and Alexander became the stuff of legends even in his own time. Alexander was responsible for establishing 20 cities in his name across the world, most notably Alexandria in Egypt, and he was directly responsible for spreading Ancient Greek culture as far east as modern day India and other parts of Asia.

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