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Epic History TV’s complete four-part history of Alexander the Great in one video. Follow the incredible story of the Macedonian king as he embarks on the total conquest of the ancient world’s greatest superpower, the Persian Empire. With dramatic victories at the Granicus, Issus and Gaugamela, Alexander defeats Darius III and claims the throne of Persia. But his campaign to subdue the empire’s easternmost provinces and reach the edge of the known world will take him into modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and the frontier of India, where he meets the Indian king Porus in battle at the Hydaspes. This is the complete overview of Alexander’s conquests, a 10 year period of immense drama and historical significance, as the young Macedonian king’s breathtaking achievements ushered in a new era in European and Middle Eastern history – the Hellenistic Age.
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Alexander the Great Mosaic Remastered – with thanks to Miłek Jakubiec
Parthenon – Dennis Jarvis via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Socrates – Bar Harel via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
White Mountains of Crete – Tobias von der Haar via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Acropolis – Aleksandr Zykov via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Theatre of Dionysus – Sébastien Bertrand via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Macedonian mountains – Novica Nakov via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Standard of Cyrus the Great – Sodacan via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Knot – JP Davidson via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Amun – Jeff Dahl via WM (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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Doric Columns – Dimitry B. via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Lar Plain, Iran – Ninara via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)
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38 Comments
Greeks are so much cooler than dirty persians
What's so "Great" about Alexander? He was just another rapacious marauder and pillager. How is he any different from the Mongols so despised by Europeans?
Is it true that lesbos was an ancient Island of Hot Lesbians ……..
Alexander taking Tyre is only briefly mentioned for just a few seconds in this doc but if you are even remotely interested in Alexander you HAVE to know the full story of the siege: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98inDANKtEs Alexander might have been the most determined commander in all of history. No one else could have done what his armies did accept for MAYBE the Romans many hundreds of years later.
The maintain kingdom of Macedonia wich he said it was maybe not Greek at all is true because near there at that time was only illyrians Albanians not Slavic Macedonia this day or Greek . Italian pope is when he gave a coronation to Albanian king and national hero 1450 gjergj kastriot skenderbeu said : his ancestors was Alexander the Great . There is many chance and things makes sense wich Alexander the Great is Albanian
If I'm incorrect,sorry. I believe that Alexander changed the tactics of his army. After his education. It made all the difference. Not mentioned at all in this video. No disrespect for Aristotle, he may have been the inspiration. But to go and conquer every one that you have been fighting for hundreds of not thousands of years. Then go beat them like that. Tactics change is evident. Great video, missing more than a few details. Thanks for doing it!
At 43:47 when the music style changed, this should be a soundtrack in my life (especially when I'm on a journey by car). 47:00 would be my Pilgrimage to the Cemetery where my Maternal Grandparents have a Memorial marker. 48:00 is my arrival at the parking area, and taking the flowers out. Crossing the Cemetery road to the marker with tears in my eyes. 48:48 the replacement of the old flowers and installing offerings of drink
hey, ive been looking at this game and UEBS, and they look very similar. Which one should i get?
Alexander the Great in the battle field and Lionel Messi in football field are same.they both attacks form right wings and they both conquered the World.when I listen Alexander history and watch Lionel Messi in the football field it gives me Goosebumps.this two conquerer still undefeated and peoples will remember them Forever.what a history 👑🙏
Hey can you make a video about philipines
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Why didn't you mentioned about Chandragupta Maurya and Seleucus Nicator ?
Alexander teach us even with his humanism power he can conquer such a huge land…what if he doubled it with awareness of God in his…such more greater he is and his followers never dare to poisoned him except the betrayal ❤
Outstanding!!
I cannot tell you HOW MUCH I enjoyed this. I loved Alexander The Great for a long time, and THIS AMAZING WORK howed me just that! Amazing way to spend an hour!
I could have conquered this world too.
The modern world is much harder to conquer, can no longer be done in ones 20s
I feel this is expensive knowledge
King porus says Hiiii !
Cultural history is a captivating narrative of how societies have evolved, blending traditions, art, and innovation. It's like turning the pages of a captivating novel written by humanity.
i always wonder what soldiers eat… i mean…. menu anyone?
Every angery 😢🎉😂❤m😮😊😮
I think it’s not conducive to education to show so many scenes of a video game in this video. Better to show pictures and paintings that can more accurately show the things talked about, and also show the opinions and feelings of different artistic ages about the subject.
Before alexender death he told to keep his hand out when taking his dead body to show , he is going empty hand taking nothing from this world.
Prous beat the sh*t of Alexander and then returned and greek write flase history.
Imagine having found bigfoot and killing it too.
The greatest Macedonian ever
Its Dah-ree-is, not Dah-ra-yas🤦🏻♀️
Alexander The Looter, a vagabond, a cheap thief. There’s no greatness about him.
I am from the MILITARY! I AM 25! I am the oldest one here !!!
"Senior Juez Benjamin"
Ben es dios.
Make seriese or make new movie about all the part off the story .
Alexander was the greatest Macedonian ever, however, he was not the first Greek to recieve divine honours in his lifetime, but the precedents were very few and of course , inevitably inexact. In the meantime Macedonia had become the undispiuted single great power of the Greek world.
Rip goat
I always thought Alexander the Great was a Bulgarian Slav from Skopje 🤔…🤨…😀….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Alexander defeated in india.
Porus defeated Alexander the great 😅 here his Conquest to Conquer the world end.
The amount of lives wasted over a bit of land. At the end of the day, most of us are here because an ancient ancestor was either a skilled fighter or a cunning coward.
The ancient maccedonians were the original Hellenics, proof that modern day maccedonia region of greece has the highest concentration per Capita of DNA paternal haplo group R1a in Balkan(wich is Indo European DNA)… Yeah sure maccedonia greece before the arrivals of Indo European hellens have earlier population like Pelasgians both Anatolian neolithic farmers people that have J2 and E-v13 DNA peoples, but Alexander and the ruling elites are Indo European greeks/hellens during the Golden age of Hellenic Kingdom of Macedonia
But most of history book says Alexandera defeated by Porous in Punjab, hydapass River