| Alexander the Great |
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Q: So, Alexander, how did you get to have this immense power?
A: Funny you should ask, I was born in 356 BC and, actually, my dad laid the groundwork for my expansive empire, and I just had to finish the job, which wasn't easy. I had to fight with the Persians! The Persians! They had many fleets of ships and I didn't have any! Now, you may have also heard that I had a tutor when I was younger, this is also true. His name was Aristotle and my, he was wise. He was considered one of the greatest philosophers of our time!
Q: Well, how did you defeat the Persians and their ships?
A: It was quite the ordeal, but I managed to do it. All I had to do was lure them onto land, so I could fight them on my grounds. To do this, I took their naval bases one by one until they had so few that they had to get out of their little boats and come fight me like a man!
Q: What can you tell me about Tyre?
A: Ah, Tyre. Tyre is a small island that I wanted control of. I tried to be civil about it and I sent a messenger to them, but they wouldn't have it. They killed my messenger! Can you believe them? So, me being the creative man I am, I made a bridge, or a causeway you could call it to Tyre. Then I deployed a seige tower and boy did I unleash a storm on them! That will teach them to kill my messengers!
Q: What happened when you went to Egypt?
A: Egypt felt like home to me. I had my sights set on Egypt because if had a lot of food, which is oh so important for a growing empire. The really interesting thing that happened there was that conquering them required no blood to be shed. If it needed to happen, I would have killed, but it eased my mind that this empire was so easily taken. Now, while I was there, they declared me to be a Pharaoh too! They actually proclaimed me as a God. This gave me immense power over the land. Egypt helped me get my empire to 3,000 miles.
Q: Tell me a bit about your cities.
A: My cities? Well they were spectacular of course! My Egypt days led me to have a new Greek world! I created a really sweet idea, I formed Hellenistic. This was the blending of ideas from all around. All my cities were constructed very similarly too. Each one had a grid plan and much more. We were, as a great man once said, "rollin'". Our cities had things like, a public market place, shopping malls, and theatres! No one had ever dreamed of anything so grand! Our theatres were the truly amazing part though. My engineers worked so hard on them, and let me be the first to say, they came out beautifully! They built the stadium so it had acoustics and the actors wore masks with mega phones so even when I was looking down over my empire, I could hear the show.
Q: How do you think all of this will affect people in the distant future, maybe around 2010?
A: Now that’s really planning ahead, but I think my rule made a huge impact. Our engineers need to get some serious credit for making our theatres and, if i had to guess, I would say our stadiums would set the standard for 200 years at least. I also think our ideas of grid plans and shopping centers will be popular around then too. I can only hope they name a shopping mall Somerset, it just has such a good ring to it
Unfortunately, Alexander passed away shortly after our interview in 323 BC. The congress depended on the loyalty of 1,000 men and they rebelled. There was a long power struggle between generals as well who all fought for dominance. One rose above the rest and took control, this was Ptolemy I. To secure his power, he stole Alexanders body and buried it which says that he gains power.
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