Today we watched a video on Alexander the Great, here are some of the notes I took:
Alexander was born in Babylon, 323 BC, years after the golden age ended. The golden age ended because of the Athenian defeat in the Peloponesian war. He was born in the city of Pella, which is part of Macedonia.
His father is called Philip the second. He taught Alexander about leadership and battle tactics. His mother was called Olympus. She work-shipped Dionysus by putting herself in a trance and drinking a lot of wine. She also claimed that she was impregnated by Zeus, and that he was Alexander's true father.
King Philip thought his wife was a little too extreme, and marries another woman while Alexander was on a 3 year trip with a philosopher. Philip had a baby with her new wife, and when Alexander found out, he saw it as a threat for his throne. Eventually, his father got killed by one of his guards, and Alexander became king at the age of 20.
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