At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map ... about Alexander but not Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 ...
The Wars of Alexander's successors, were a series of conflicts that erupted among the generals of Alexander the Great.
Archaeologists have uncovered the long-lost site where Alexander the Great achieved his first major ... much of Asia, extending his empire into India." The battle of 90,000 men saw Alexander's ...
Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander, politician, scholar and explorer, Alexander led his army a further 11,000 miles, founding over 70 cities and creating an empire that ...
Born in 356 BCE in Pella, Alexander the Great became one of history's most renowned figures and was considered the first of the great generals in world history. He built an empire extending from ...
By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern ... we talk about Alexander but not Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BCE: racism.