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.

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 ...

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.