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Alexander the Great
Title: Alexander the Great
Category: History
Details: Words: 2113 | Pages: 9.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great
By Tina Leacock
Long before the birth of Christ, the land directly above what we know as Greece today, was called Macedonia. Macedonia still exists, but it is now Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and modern Greece. Macedonia was considered to be part of ancient Greece, but the people of these two countries could not be more different. No people in history ever gave so much to the human race as the ancient Greeks. They …showed first 75 words of 2113 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2113 total…great expanses of territory. He started out as a brave and generous man but towards the end of his life, Alexander became more unjust and cruel. This, like many other things in history, shows that “Absolute power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Alexander the Great lived a life, which in human terms has never been matched. His contributions to history, despite his faults, will never dim. The stories of his exploits will live forever.
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