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Alexander the Great, the young Macedonian military genius who forged an empire 
stretching from the eastern Mediterranean to India, dies in Babylon, in present-day 
Iraq, at the age of 32.

Born in Macedonia to King Phillip II and Queen Olympias, Alexander received a 
classical education from famed philosopher Aristotle and a military education from 
his father. At the age of 16, Alexander led his first troops into combat and two years 
later commanded a large part of his father\u2019s army that won the Battle of 
Chaeronea and brought Greece under Macedonian rule. In 336 B.C., Phillip II was 
assassinated, and Alexander ascended to the throne

Although Alexander controlled the largest empire in the history of the world, he 
launched a new eastern campaign soon after his return from Persia. By 327 B.C.,
 he had conquered Afghanistan, Central Asia, and northern India. In the next
 year, his army, exhausted after eight years of fighting, refused to go farther, 
and Alexander led them on a difficult journey home through the inhospitable 
Makran Desert.

Finally reaching Babylon, Alexander began constructing a large fleet to take 
his army back to Egypt. However, in June 323 B.C., just as the work on his 
ships was reaching its conclusion, Alexander fell sick and died. Perhaps 
earnestly believing himself to be a god (as many of his subjects did), he 
had not selected a successor, and within a year of his death his army and 
his empire broke into a multitude of warring factions. His body was later
returned to Alexandria, where it was laid to rest in a golden coffin.



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