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How viruses shape our world. The era of greyhound racing in the U. When Alexander was a teenager, his father hired Aristotle to be his private tutor. Alexander included botanists and scientists in his army to study the lands he conquered. In B. Alexander began his reign by subduing rivals in the Greek and Macedonian regions. At a council of the League of Corinth, he was chosen as the commander of a military invasion of Asia. King Alexander began his invasion of the Middle East in B.
He spent most of his reign on a military campaign through northeast Africa and southwestern Asia. Alexander built many new cities in the lands he conquered, including Alexandria in Egypt. He went on to conquer the lands of the Persian Empire, establishing more cities, and like Alexandria, often naming them after himself.
At this point, his army refused to continue further into India, exhausted and discouraged by heavy rains. During his year reign as the king of Macedonia, Alexander created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. Also called the Ganga. Most of the ancient Persian empire is in modern-day Iran. The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit.
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