He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map ... the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

Then, in 334 BCE, he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian Empire ... but not Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BCE: racism.

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

(CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern ... with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to ...