Was Alexander the Great really Great? Rough Draft

On July 20th 356BC, the son of the great leader Phillip the second of Macedon had a son. His name would one day be known throughout the world as Alexander the Great. But wait a minute was he really all that great? How can someone just slap on a great to his name. Who said he was great what if someone thinks he isn’t so great and has evidence. I’m here to prove that Alexander the Great was definitely great.
Alexander the Great really did live up to his name in my mind. He did so much to make his country Macedonia great and powerful. He also had the same vision as his father to one day rule a vast empire. When his dad was killed Alexander decided to live up to his father’s dreams of a vast empire and began to make his vast. Before his father died he had already conquered Greece and had became allies with it’s city-states. He used these city-states to attack the great Persian Empire. He freed Egypt and other lands from Persian rule and soon enough, he took over the whole empire. Now if that’s not great than what is.

Alexander didn’t stop being great after the downfall of Persia. He continued heading east in search for another sea. This lead to his army needing to pass through India and defeat it’s armies. This was a success until he reached the Indus River and there, he faced a near mutiny from his troops. But because he was so awesome and great, he begins to head back to Greece. Tragedy struck in Babylon as Alexander the Great grew very ill. He died on June 11, 323BC leaving one of the biggest ever ancient empires behind him. Now emphasis on the biggest ever ancient empire. That is pretty great if you ask me. So far Alexander the Great seems to be living up to his name.

Now one last thing that Alexander did that was awesome was all the Greek traditions and customs he left behind at each city he conquered. He made an impact on all sorts of ancient cultures by leaving Greek people at each city state and getting them to tell others about Greek traditions and customs. It also pays off over time in all sorts of things like art, life style and many other aspects of life. And all that would have been impossible if it wasn’t for Alexander the GREAT. One more little interesting fact about Alexander the Great is that when he let Egypt out of Persian rule, he let the people and the slaves go free. The slaves too are what interest me though. Why on earth would he do that? How would this civilization continue to thrive without slaves to work? Anyway that further proves that Alexander the great is in fact great.

So with all my knowledge of Alexander the Great together, I have come to the conclusion that he in fact lived up to his name for three main reasons. One he took down the evil Persian Empire, two he amassed one of the biggest ancient empires ever, and three he left behind Greek traditions wherever he went and freed some Egyptian slaves.

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Reflection

1. I prepared for this test by going over what notes I had from the chapters. I also reread some chapters which I think I didn't know much about over a couple of times.

1a. I slightly think that my studying strategies were effective. I think this because rereading chapters from the humanities book are good ways of refreshing your memory. Then of course, if I had been doing more notes, I could have looked back at them as well.

1b. For the next test, I think that I'll do much of the same. I will definitely be doing more notes next quarter so that I have more to look back on when It comes time for me to study. I will also try to single out certain areas where I think I haven't learned a lot about and study more on those sections.

2. I think the most surprising things that I learned during this unit were about the bad emperors of the Roman Empire. For example, Nero disliked Christians and blamed a massive fire in Rome on them and announced that Christianity was illegal and that all it's followers would be killed. Because of this, he actually made candles  out of live Christians! That was really weird yet pretty interesting. 

3. If we were given more time to learn about Rome and Christianity, I would have liked to focus more on the physical geography of Rome. One of the only questions that I was unsure about during the test was the first one where It asked you to name the seas on Rome's western, eastern, and southern borders. I wasn't sure of this answer on the test and in fact got it wrong so if we were to work more on Rome, I would work more on the physical geography.

Fall of Rome

If you ask me, the fall of Rome was bond to happen. For starters, a string of bad emperors who had no interest in expanding the empire or maintaining it wasn't good. Then Rome simply got too big and the government couldn't control everything. This lead to civil war which leads to many economic problems. Hope was restored to the empire when Diocletian came to power and had a great idea to split the empire in two so that it was easier to manage. This did work but not for long. Rome's army was still at lengths to maintain the empire so it was easy for barbarians to invade and settle on Roman territory. Many of these tribes were simply peaceful and trying to escape the Huns who were migrating from Asia. But others were not, and soon enough, the Western part of Rome's empire fell at the hands of the Visigoths leader Alaric. Many historians will mark the end of the whole Roman Empire in 476 AD when the last emperor was defeated in the western part of the empire. Despite all of this, Constantinople withstood attacks from barbarians and the city remained intact for another thousand years.

I personally feel that this was all going to happen one day are Rome were just waiting for it to happen. Along with all that I have mentioned, Rome's small workforce, poor economy, lack of technology, and it's poor military all had a major hand in it's downfall.