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5 Military Tactics That Made Alexander, the Great
He owes credit to his father, King Philip II of Macedon
Alexander the great is unquestionably one of the most famous military commanders in the world.
He conquered the world known at his time by the age of 32. The military forces of the Kingdom of Macedon were the most powerful, advanced and most organized armies of their time. Defeat was a word unknown to them.
But most part of the credit goes to the father of Alexander, King Philip II of Macedon. Macedon, at the time before Philip II, became the King was regarded as a second-rate power.
It had almost no importance in Greek politics which, at that time was regarded as the first-rate power. It was the intelligent and assertive leadership of King Philip and then his descendent Alexander the Great that made the Kingdom of Macedon the most powerful empire of its time.
Alexander continued King Philip’s legacy and using his tactics conquered 3,000 miles across the globe just in a span of 13 years. He expanded the once unknown Macedonian kingdom into a vast empire that occupied land from Macedonia to Egypt and from Greece to part of Pakistan in the Chitral region.
