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The Destruction Of Tyre And Alexander's Legacy

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Alexander was not great I think that Alexander was not great. In my opinion Alexander was not very great at all. He may have had some pretty amazing accomplishments but that does not mean he was great at what he does or how he did it and it for sure does not mean he was a great person by any means. The evidence that I will be using is Alexander 's Empire, The Destruction of Tyre, and Alexander 's Legacy. While Alexander was building his empire he covered many lands and went through many towns and that is what this paragraph will be about. Alexander decided to name eleven cities possibly more, after himself. I feel like that was a very pathetic thing to do on his part. That was probably one of the ways that he wanted to be remembered but he

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