Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights. Who was alexander the great The son of a king, alexander was a brilliant military leader who conquered most of the known world—but he wasn't much of a diplomat. Alexander the great, a macedonian king, conquered the eastern mediterranean, egypt, the middle east, and parts of asia in a remarkably short period of time His empire ushered in significant cultural changes in the lands he conquered and changed the course of the region’s history. Alexander the great was an ancient macedonian ruler and one of history’s greatest military minds who, as king of macedonia and persia, established the largest empire the ancient world had ever.
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