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Alexander the Great, the young Macedonian military genius who forged an empire
stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to India, dies in Babylon, in present-day
Iraq, at the age of 32.
Born in Macedonia to King Phillip II and Queen Olympias, Alexander received a
classical education from famed philosopher Aristotle and a military education from
his father. At the age of 16, Alexander led his first troops into combat and two years
later commanded a large part of his father\u2019s army that won the Battle of
Chaeronea and brought Greece under Macedonian rule. In 336 B.C., Phillip II was
assassinated, and Alexander ascended to the throne
Although Alexander controlled the largest empire in the history of the world, he
launched a new eastern campaign soon after his return from Persia. By 327 B.C.,
he had conquered Afghanistan, Central Asia, and northern India. In the next
year, his army, exhausted after eight years of fighting, refused to go farther,
and Alexander led them on a difficult journey home through the inhospitable
Makran Desert.
Finally reaching Babylon, Alexander began constructing a large fleet to take
his army back to Egypt. However, in June 323 B.C., just as the work on his
ships was reaching its conclusion, Alexander fell sick and died. Perhaps
earnestly believing himself to be a god (as many of his subjects did), he
had not selected a successor, and within a year of his death his army and
his empire broke into a multitude of warring factions. His body was later
returned to Alexandria, where it was laid to rest in a golden coffin.
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