Alexander the Great

• Plato's first university was called The Academy.
• Plato was a student of Socrates.
• Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great (ATG).
• Philip II held Thebes as a prisoner of war.
• Philip II improved the Macedonian Greek military by improving the phalanx, adding long spears, inventing the crossbow, and introducing new calvary maneuvers.
• Philip II tried to unify Greece with The League of Corinth.
• Alexander the Great became king at age 20.
• Alexander the Great's two goals he picked up from his father were to unify Greece and conquer the world.
• The Greek city-state Thebes denied Alexander's offer for unification.
• The effect of Alexander the Great's demolishing defeat of Thebes was that all of Greece united.
• Alexander the Great crossed the Hellespont strait to enter Persian lands.
• The first battle where Darius III confronted Alexander the Great was Granicus.

Alexander the Great's coastal strategy

• Cut off the Persian navy.
• Control all the ports.
• Finance his war.
• Keep supplies and communications open with Greece.
• Darius III outnumbered the Greeks at the battle of Issus, with 110,000 to 41,000 soldiers.
• Alexander's siege of Tyre lasted 7 months.

Biblical prophecies fulfilled by Alexander the Great at Tyre:

• Tyre's rubble would be thrown into the sea; Alexander the Great took Tyre's rubble and built a causeway.
• Tyre would never be rebuilt; fishermen are still there.
• Tyre would have several nations take them over; Alexander the Great used ships from several different countries to overtake it.
• When Alexander the Great arrived in Jerusalem, the priests read a prophecy to him and two verses about Persia.
• The prophecy that Alexander the Great conquered by Greece was read, but the next verse about it being split into 4 kingdoms after Alexander the Great's death was not.
• Egypt welcomed Alexander the Great upon his arrival and considered him a god.
• Alexandria was important in spreading Greek influence, becoming a new Athens, housing the literature of the world, storing the Old Testament, and having straight streets.

Collapse of Persia

• The historic battle that marks the collapse of Persia to Alexander the Great: Arbela.
• Internal problems within Alexander the Great's troops included his growing ego building enemies from his own men, many assassination plots, Greek lands becoming corrupt, no unity, and mutiny setting in among Greek soldiers.
• Alexander the Great lost 0 battles.
• Personal problems Alexander the Great encountered near the end of his life included alcoholism, egotism that demanded his troops worship him, and political corruption within, causing Greeks to doubt him.
• Expanding Greek influence into other parts of the world is called Hellenization.
• 4 kingdoms came from Alexander the Great's empire.

Hellenization Advancements

• Every city Alexander the Great conquered, he left officials to run and operate in the way of the Greek culture.
• Greece overtakes Persia in Daniel 11.
• Other prophecies about Alexander the Great are located in The bronze in Nebuchadnezzar's statue
• The rival generals fighting for control of the land after Alexander the Great's death were the Diadochi.