Alexander the Great??

Alexander the Great??

You are one of Alexander’s soldiers. You have just defeated the Tyrians after a gruesome seven month battle. You have lost a lot of friends from the counterattacks of the Tyrians, a group of fierce fighters. Now Alexander orders you to kill Tyrian soldiers and spare those who sought safety in the temple. The remaining civilian survivors were sold into slavery.

Since Alexander had intelligence, courage, and leadership (as shown in the Alexander documents A-G) it helped him in conquering and making his empire last for a long time.

Alexander was a great leader because he had intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to learn things or know about something. This helped during his major battles with cities that refused to surrender. During a battle Alexander saw a man named Porus with a large stampede of elephants across a river. Alexander decided to move his troops in different directions so Porus would be confused. (Doc. C) Alexander defeated Porus and moved on. Alexander also broke into the Tyrian city after 7 months of battling and killed the remaining troops so they could not fall back and fight again. (Doc. C) Alexander was marching through a desert and some of his troops found some water and brought it back in a helmet. To encourage his soldiers Alexander took the helmet and poured the water onto the ground. (Doc. D)

Another thing that helped Alexander be a great leader was having courage. Courage is doing something that is scary to others. ‘‘Alexander charged into Porus’ camp with about 10,000 soldiers’’