Alexander the Great Interactive Biography - Ancient Greece and Empire - Grades 6-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
This Alexander the Great interactive biography turns the conquest of the Persian empire into a self-guided activity that opens in any browser with no prep, no logins, and no installs. Students follow Alexander (356-323 BCE) from a Macedonian boyhood tutored by Aristotle through the three battles that broke Persia, east to the Indus, and back to a death in Babylon at thirty-two. What Students Explore - Biography: Five illustrated eras covering the Macedonian boyhood and the lessons from Aristotle, the violent succession and the crushing of Thebes, the three great victories at Granicus, Issus and Gaugamela, the march east to the Hydaspes and the army that refused to go further, and the return to Babylon and an early death - Timeline: A two-track timeline of 35 events setting Alexander's life beside the Greek city-states under Macedonian control, the last years of Achaemenid Persia, and the wars of the successors that carved up the empire - Map: Twelve places that shaped the story, from Pella and Aegae through Thebes, the Granicus, Issus, the siege of Tyre, the Siwa Oracle and the founding of Alexandria, to Gaugamela, Persepolis, the Hydaspes and Babylon - Connections: A 22-node web of the people, works, events and institutions in the story, including his father Philip II, his mother Olympias, his tutor Aristotle, his companion Hephaestion, the generals Ptolemy and Parmenion, his wife Roxana, his rivals Darius III and King Porus, and his horse Bucephalus - Sources and Quiz: Four
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