The 8th November is celebrated as Archangels Day in Greece, but on that November day in 1977 CE something remarkable happened: an excavation team led by Professor Manolis Andronikos were roped down into the eerie gloom of an unlooted Macedonian-styled tomb at Vergina in northern Greece. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1437/warrior-women-of-the-world-of-ancient-macedon/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #Macedon #PhilipIIofMacedon
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The age-old concept of the “divine right of kings” allowed that a country's ruler received his or her power or authority from God. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/925/alexander-the-great-as-a-god/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #AmmonDeity #Macedon
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In the ancient Greek world, warfare was seen as a necessary evil of the human condition. https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Warfare/ #History #Alcibiades #AlexandertheGreat #Ares
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Herodotus (484 BCE – c. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/199/depictions-of-india-in-ancient-literature/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #Asia #Herodotus
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After Alexander the Great's victory over King Darius III at the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 BCE, he had to contend with small rebellions that broke out across his empire. https://www.worldhistory.org/Roxanne/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #AntipaterMacedonianGeneral #Cassander
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Cyrus the Great (558-530 BCE) built the first universal empire, stretching from Greece to the Indus River. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/208/cultural-links-between-india--the-greco-roman-worl/ #History #AchaemenidEmpire #AlexandertheGreat #CyrustheGreat
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One of the most effective and enduring military formations in ancient warfare was that of the Greek phalanx. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/110/the-greek-phalanx/ #History #AchaeanLeague #AlexandertheGreat #BattleofChaeronea
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The Battle of Chaeronea took place in 338 BCE on an early August morning outside the town of Chaeronea. https://www.worldhistory.org/Battle_of_Chaeronea/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #BattleofChaeronea #Demosthenes
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On June 10, 323 BCE Alexander the Great died in Babylon. https://www.worldhistory.org/Wars_of_the_Diadochi/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #Amastris #AntigonusI
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The Battle of Issus, on 5 November 333 BCE, was Alexander the Great's second battle against the Persian army and the first direct engagement with King Darius III, near the village of Issus in southern modern-day Turkey. https://www.worldhistory.org/Battle_of_Issus/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #BattleofGaugamela #BattleofIssus
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Olympias (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Olympias/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #AntipaterMacedonianGeneral #Cassander
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Cassander (c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Cassander/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #AntigonusI #AntipaterMacedonianGeneral
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Hephaestion was a member of Alexander the Great's personal bodyguard and the Macedonian king's closest and lifelong friend and advisor. https://www.worldhistory.org/Hephaestion/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #Hephaestion #Macedon
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Elephants were thought of as fierce and frightful monsters in antiquity, very real though rarely seen until the Hellenistic period. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1381/elephants-in-hellenistic-history--art/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #Elephant #HellenisticPeriod
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History is not predictable; in many ways it can take on a life of its own. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/854/alexander-the-great-a-case-study-in-martial-leader/ #History #AchaemenidEmpire #AlexandertheGreat #AntipaterMacedonianGeneral
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Perdiccas (d. https://www.worldhistory.org/Perdiccas/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #AntigonusI #Diadochi
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History is recorded by individual human beings with their own beliefs and interests guiding what they choose to record, and, as such, many events and details may be omitted from the account of a certain event or the story of a great person’s life. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1775/ten-famous--not-so-famous-same-sex-couples-in-anci/ #History #Achilles #AlexandertheGreat #Antinous
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Herodotus (484 BCE – c. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/199/depictions-of-india-in-ancient-literature/ #History #AlexandertheGreat #Asia #Herodotus
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In the ancient Greek world, warfare was seen as a necessary evil of the human condition. https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Warfare/ #History #Alcibiades #AlexandertheGreat #Ares
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