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Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.
The Hellenistic world view: world map by Eratosthenes (276–194 BC), using information from the campaigns of Alexander and his successors [262] Alexander's most immediate legacy was the introduction of Macedonian rule to huge new swathes of Asia.
'Amalgamated Map of the Great Ming Empire') world map, likely made in the late 14th or the 15th century, [33] shows China at the centre and Europe, half-way round the globe, depicted very small and horizontally compressed at the edge. The coast of Africa is also mapped from an Indian Ocean perspective, showing the Cape of Good Hope area.
When Alexander the Great died on June 10, 323 BC, he left behind a huge empire which comprised many essentially independent territories. Alexander's empire stretched from his homeland of Macedon itself, along with the Greek city-states that his father had subdued, to Bactria and parts of India in the east.
In Syria, the city of Antioch, later to become one of the major cities of the ancient world, claimed a relationship with Alexander. According to Libanius , a 4th-century AD native of the city, Alexander planned to found a city on the future site of Antioch but did not have enough time to do so; he instead set up a shrine to Zeus and a small ...
The home and colonial populations of the world's empires in 1908, as given by The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer. Because of the trend of increasing world population over time, absolute population figures are for some purposes less relevant for comparison between different empires than their respective shares of the world population at the time ...
Alexander The Great in the French museum Le Louvre Archived 17 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine; Alexander, The Great Mystery by T. Peter Limber in "Saudi Aramco Magazine" Trace Alexander's conquests on an animated map; Alexander the Great of Macedon, a project by John J. Popovic; Alexander in the Punjab.
The Palace of Aigai was built by Alexander the Great’s father, Phillip II, and completed in 336 B.C., officials said. Alexander was proclaimed king of Macedonia in the monumental complex that ...