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Alexander The Great and Ancient Greece by Miriam Greenblatt Tarrytown, NY: Benchmark Books, 2000

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Call Number: 938 GRE

**__Summary/Description__:** {In Alexander the Great and Ancient Greece, Alexander, becoming the King of Macedonia at the young age of 20, would become one of the greatest kings to ever live. After his father Philip of Macedonia, Alexander did what he could not do. He conquered Greece and all of its city states. He usually went into battle with his horse, Bucephalus, who only he was smart enough to tame.He would become such a great leader because of the great Greek philosopher Aristotle. Alexander's conquering ability would be what he was best known for today.

Becoming King at 20 and conquering land from Greece to Egypt to the most of India would only be able to be done by the mastermind Alexander the Great. With only 30,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry he was determined to finish his fathers quest by defeating the Persian army of 1,000,000 soldiers. He would only be able to do this by being one of the smartest military leaders to live. For example, one of the greatest decisions he ever made was to attack the Persian quickly while the sun was in their eyes, making it hard for their soldiers to fight. What Alexander did was he found the opponents weakness and used it against them to the best of his ability. He not only defeated the Persians, but also took over the Egyptians and some of India. Alexander died on June 10, 323 B.C.E. in his years of King he led his army 22,000 miles without losing a single battle. Is it any wonder that later generations called him Alexander the Great?}

__**Beyond the Book**__: Go beyond the book by exploring these recommended web resources:
 * [|Alexander the Great Biography] - This website is a biography on Alexander the Great's life. This biography includes information regarding his family life as well as life as a king . It shows drawn pictures of different important events in his royal life. The website also has different links attached to key words in the main text that you can click on to see more information. It is a great source if you want to know a big margins of the facts about Alexander.
 * [|Time Line of Alexander] - This link shows dates of only the most important events in Alexanders life. These events consist of his child hood getting him ready for to become a great king. They include some of his victories as a king such as one of his best victories, the battle of Issus. The cities he founded and named after important people in his life are in there. Finally, his death on June 10, 323 BC.
 * [|Conquering Route] - On this link it talks about the route Alexander took. This is a good source because it tells everything in chronological (time) order. This makes it easier to understand. Furthermore, there is a diagram of the land that belonged to Alexander. There is multiple pages, so if you are not seeing what you are looking for just go to the next page and keep looking. This site is best for researching Alexanders path to owning all the land that he did.
 * [|Young Years] - When people think of Alexander the Great, they think of how great of a leader he was. What they never think about is how he got to be such a great military leader. This link talks about most of the important information about Alexander before he became a king. Without the help of some of the people he wouldn't be the genuis he is while being King of Macedonia. It would be great to check out this link, not a lot of people know how Alexander was when he was in his teens.
 * [|Battle of Issus] - This link explains, in depth, one of Alexander the Great's most remembered victories. this would be a good site to look at because all of the other links talk about what he did. None of those links talked about how he did it or what strategies he used. These strategies will be why he wins all of hese battles. The battle of Issus, this links topic, is one of the best examples of this.
 * [|Fun Facts] - The fun facts link is an amazing source if you are doing a powerpoint and need fun facts. These facts include information that really no one pays attention to. Sometimes these facts are what people mostly pay attention to because it is the information that they do not know. The facts on this page include information about Alexander as well as everyone that was involved in his life. Probably the best thing about this link is that it has a question about Alexander and then they give a direct answer then they tell a little bit about it. This makes it very easy for anyone to understand.