Taking Notes

Today in Honor's Western Civilization we took notes on pages 142-145 in our comp books. During my reading I found many interesting facts about Alexander the Great. Alex became king of Macedonia when he was just 20 years old. After he conquered the Greek city-states he pursued on his father's attempt to invade Persia. He showed up to Macedonia with a 20,000 person army outnumbered by about 20,000 people under King Darius. Alexander used a 16 levels deep phalanx with a cavalry charge behind it. This caused Kind Darius to flee. Alexander ended up winning so many battles that Darius offered him a majority of Persia allowing Darius to have some of the land. However, Alexander did not accept it and eventually conquered all of Persia. Alexander had some more conquests but after traveling 11,000 miles in 11 years his troops were ready to go home. So, Alexander and his troops returned to their homes in anger. Alexander soon died from a fever after. After this the bell rang and ended class.

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