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Today in Western Civ we watched a video on Alexander the Great. And we had to take notes, here is what I have written down:

Documentary on Alexander the Great

• Alexander learned military skills and leadership from his father 
• Olympius his mom, also influenced him 
• passion and emotional nature 
• she spread a rumor that she was impregnated by Zeus through a snake 
• was thought to be too crazy for king Philip
• Also learned and was influenced from Aristotle 
• Achilles chose eternal death but was also one of his influences 
• "whatever Achilles could do, Alexander could do better" 
• his new mom had a son who was seen as his dad's favorite 
• feuded with his dad and went into exile 
• his dad was stabbed at his daughters wedding 
• thought to be an ex lover BUT some think it could have been an angry Alexander or Olympius 
• murderer was killed right then so there is no proof on anything 
• Alexander was 20 when he became king 
• planned to go after Persia because that was his dads plan 
• never seemed to hesitate with anything 
• in the battle with Darius, he was outgunned, outnumbered, but not out-planned 
• killed 50,000 people 
• was the first chance to prove himself and who he was
• was one of the most great military geniuses and may have been bi or gay- so maybe people should stop using gay as an insult, it's 2016 people 2016 
• Alexander brings Cleisthenies (spelling??) to "tell the story" kind of like Homer and his stories
• even though he was a great man he was very cruel 
• had 2,000 Tyrian fighters crucified because of defiance 
• in some places of Persia to get revenge he would kill all the men and leave the women alone, which was an incredibly cruel punishment back then 
• tied governor to a horse and had him dragged across the town until he died