How did Alexander the Great influence Greece and the world during his life.  How does he influence us today?
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This is by no means an easy 2 part question to answer. So I will list a few things and hope it will inspire you to read for yourself how when and why. \n\npart 1\nHe took what he and his father started and refined it to do the following.\n\n1.He created set roles for members of his army.\n2.Refined the weapons to be used by each person.\n3.He for the first time in history provided ALL members of his army with what they needed for batttle. (provision and weapons and armor)\n4. Established a standard for education for children to learn in school to make them ready for the army when they were of age.\n5.He payed his troops for every day as enlisted men, not random civil regements.\n6.He opened trade endless routs and founded / rebuild more then 40 cities.\n7.He in the late portion of he short life begain to merge all races together\n8.Founded the great Library in Alexandria Egypt.\n9.Proved use of a profetional army was the best way to wage war. Not civil draft (peasant) armies.\n\nPart 2\n1.We have basic training for military that is still based on what he did nearly 2400 years ago.\n2.We still teach and use his tacts of battle today in our military. West point teaches his tactics.\n3.Our school systems have a set critiria of subject all people must learn.
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Education & Reference - Yahoo! Answers \nAnswers is a new way to find and share information. ... The political and Social sides of the Minoans? ... inventions,and show the positive and negitive ...answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?link=list&sid=396545015&cp=4&tp=800\nGreece - From the Minoans to Alexander \nSocial and political organization. a. collection of city state monarchies. b. ... would weaken both sides, offering the possibility of invasion. IV. ...www.tnstate.edu/tcorse/h121/greece.htm
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Macedonia was a Hellenic state just as Sparta, Athens and Corinth.There wasn't a greek country as we know it today, just hellenic speaking monarchies.\nThe word Greek is an incorrect name of what it really is the Hellenic republic and Hellenic movement. Alexander the great was the first one to reunite all of the Hellenic speaking tribes together that started the Hellenic movement and resulted in today's modern Greece.\nThe name Greek originated from a nomad tribe that left the area that you now call Greece (Hellas) and moved south of Italy in the area known as Magna graecia.The tribes name was graecos.\nIt is a mistake to call Hellas (Hellenic republic), Greece, a name that the Hellenes never called themselves.\nSo Alexander the great was not Greek but he was the FIRST Hellene from the region of pella in Hellenic Macedonia. He is the one who united all the tribes and promoted Hellenism thus creating a united Hellas (Greece).\nNot to confuse with today's controversial country in the Balkans that calls it's self Macedonia and that their legal name is actually FYROM (former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia).Not to mention that the province located in the northern part of greece where Alexander was born is named Macedonia.\nOf course ancient Macedonia's land was larger than todays Greek state of Macedonia and included some of the land of todays FYROM and that is the reason that this country claims the name of Macedonia.\nHowever Alexander and his father Phillip were born in Pella and there is archeological proof of that, and Pella is still a region within Greek state of Macedonia today.\nNot to mention that the name Alexander is a greek name that means "protector of men" even in todays Greek language.\nGreece oposed the naming of FYROM as Macedonia and it is easy to understand.\nHow would the US feel if Mexico decided to call themselves California and claim the history of California as theirs.\nIt is complicated....
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You have never met Alexander the Great and yet you believe what you have heard about him. Interestingly enough the first books were not written about him until 500 years after he was dead. Christ was written about from the beginning of time and again within 55 years of his death and resurection.  You cant see the wind just the effects. Yet I believe there is wind.
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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Aristotle  \nOverview of the life, philosophy, and writings of Aristotle.\nCategory: Philosophers > Aristotle (384-322 BC)\nwww.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm \n\nOne link among others..........He did many things dear but was a philosopher foremost !
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I suggest you read Black Athena by Martin Bernal ..this gives a great description of how Africans influenced the Greeks. Another great author is Howard Zinn. Hey and would you guess that these men are white speaking of the greatness of Africans!!!
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I am a Greek, Brought up in Athens and I can most certainly testify that Greek schooling and general attitude during the 80's was against the ottomans and the muslims in General.  Not many Greeks I know are particularly friendly towards muslims. This is normal and natural.  Greece is the natural border of christian europe and has defended the continent from muslim invasions for eons.  Hellenic nationals had to stick together for many years and cope with a lot of misery. It was because of xenophobia, racism and a sense of superiority that Greece and its people survived as a nation through the wars and the attempted systematic extermination of our ideals and genetic and cultural identity.  It was Kisinger him self that famously said that the 'Greeks are difficult to tame and we shall dilute the glue that holds them together'.     What people need to realise is that Iran and Greece has something very very very much in common they are both pelasgian tribes of the original white race.   Yes Iranians are perhaps the most true representations of ARIAN.  What we trully have in common is that our true civilisation has been supressed by two oppresive types of religion Christianity and Islam.  The brightest Iranian and Hellenic minds have been enslaved with dogmatic oppressive thought suppresing cultural viruses - religion.   The rulers of this planet are SOO HAPPY when pelasgian populations fight with each other as it guarantees their control.  GROW UP,  OPEN YOUR MIND AND WAKE UP !
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Augustine of Hippo, who is the third most influential man in Christian history after Jesus and Paul. His book, The City Of God, opened my eyes to the fact that Christianity is a faith of both the heart and the mind. Meaning, our intellects are just as involved in our faith as our hearts. \n\nHe's writing are deep and in spite he's faults he was a man who sincerely sought to do God's will.
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If you mean ancient Greece , it came into contact with many civilizations. That is Egyptians, Persians, Romans, and through Alexander the Greats empire even more like Skythians,Jews,Arabs and Indes and has affected all of them . Post ancient Greece and through the Byzantine empire which consisted mostly of Greeks and Romans came also into contact with Slavs,Huns, Mongols ,Ottomans and others.
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The Athenian fifth century known as Golden Age, was mainly concentrated on the period of Pericles. The Athenian statesman, who dominated the political scene for forty years, is associated with the cultural activity that produced the great buildings on the Acropolis Hill. \nFind more imfo in site below
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Your namesake, Aristotle.  He laid the foundation for Western thought and philosophy that freed the mind of mankind.  All of us in the West today still enjoy the benefits of his discourses.
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its from darius  the persian king who fought alexander the great.
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Genghis Khan was taller!\n\nSeriously thought, Alexander did what he did out of personal ego and really didn't care about building a great society, he only wanted to make a mark as a Master of War!\n\nNapoleon at least had some ideas concerning Laws and domestic policy but Empire was again his egotistical motivation.\n\nKhan was a tribal Prince that saw his Father murdered by neighbor warlords and so beyond revenge, he had motivations that sought to improve society as a whole and so his family remainded in power for 250 years!
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If you mean Cleopatra the last Quinn (pharaoh) of Egypt then the answer is no. They were not even related. They were both Greeks (from real Macedonia in Greece) but Alexander was from the Argeiad family (which originated from city of Argos from Southern Greece, directly linked to Hercules). Cleopatra the last Quinn (pharaoh)  from Egypt was from the Ptolemaic family which originated from real Macedonia in Greece. Ptolaimeos the first Greek king (pharaoh) of Egypt was an “etairos” (companion) of Alexander and took control of Egypt after Alexander’s death!\nAlexander did have a sister who was also named Cleopatra (Greek name "Κλεοπάτρα" meaning "father’s glory") but she married Kassander and had nothing to do with Egypt.\n{Do not confuse the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia or Macedon with the modern state of Makedonija (or FYROM or Slav Macedonia as they are not related at all). The confusion has started a few years ago because that small state started to use the name “Republic of Macedonia” causing a great confusion with real Macedonia in Greece.}
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Hello dear!\nDo you mean the Film related guy?\nIf yes, his name and work have great reputation, here in Greece!
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1)Isaac Newton: The greatest genius that ever lived.  His work opened the natural world to study, and answered almost all of the major questions of his day.\n\n2) Aristotle: The most influential thinker until modern times, who established observation and logic and central principles in understanding the universe.\n\nThen, in no particular order:\n\nPlank, Einstein: physics-Plank established quantum physics (after a lot of resistance) and Einstein relativity.  Between the two, they brought us into the modern understanding of the universe-we have not really made discoveries of this significance since.\n\nMendel, Darwin: biology- The understanding of evolution, which is the origin of all the species (Darwin) and of the process of genetics (Mendel).\n\nWegener: geology: Plate tectonic theory-from him we understand a great deal of how the Earth is structured.\n\nFreud: psychology:  Almost none of his theories are believed today, but the very idea that there was a subconcious, that the mind was amenable to analysis, was absolutely revolutionary.  His work probably has more effect on the way the average person thinks about themselves and the world than any other on this list.\n\nLavoisier, Mendeleev: chemistry: Lavoisier overturned all of the thought of the day on chemistry with the establishment of conservation of mass.  Mendeleev constructed the periodic table of the elements, and explained property relationships-all of chemistry is built on this.
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There was more than one revolutionary social concept developed by the Greeks, and those concepts changed the world:\n\n1. A "public" religion that did not compete with, or replace, private religious beliefs or practices (this was the "glue" that bound together the fiercely independant Greek city-states into a cohesive whole)\n\n2. The concept of natural causes being the explanation for what happens in the natural world (as opposed to divine retribution or reward)\n\n3. The elevation of individuals (excepting, of course, women and slaves) to "citizens'  who participated in public affairs, including law-making\n\n4. Ethics - the idea that there was a way to tell right from wrong without divine authority, decided my rational humans\n\n5. Secular law