The Accomplishments Of Alexander The Great
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Alexander the Great, a patient and often devious man; had never
struck without careful planning. The youthful, headstrong Alexander liked
to settle problems by immediate action. Making decisions with great speed,
he took extraordinary risks; his success was achieved by the amount of
sheer force an ....
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.... to punish the city for what he regarded as treachery; .
The city was destroyed and its people sold into slavery or killed. All of
the city_s buildings were destroyed except for temples and the house of
Pindar the poet. Pindar was long dead, but Alexander wanted to prove that
even a Macedonian conqueror could be a Hellene. The savage lesson of Thebes
brought results, the Athenian assembly quickly congratulated Alexander, and
the Greek states, with Sparta as the continuing exception, remai ....
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