Week 4b: Daily Blog Day 6 – Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Daily Blog Day 6 – Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Question: What do you think should have been done after Alexander's death?

            Alexander the Great began to conquer the entire known world at a very young age and had accomplished his dream of this by the age of about thirty. Alexander although also died at a very young age too. When Alexander died, the great king and conquer of all surprisingly did not leave any plans behind about who would succeed him or anything like that. This is extremely surprising, because he was so detailed in planning other things like how he created his myth and conquered the entire known world. People must have been dumbfounded and unsure of what to so. They probably wondered what would come next. I think Alexander may have left no plans partially because no one expected he would die so soon. Also though, I think that the reason Alexander the Great did it was to complete his myth. He did not want anyone to come after him and rule his empire. He wanted to be known as the only king of the entire known world. When Alexander died his generals argued immensely and fought over the land. Eventually, they ended up all with their own section or part of Alexander the Great’s once amazing empire. As a result of this big change, of what you could call power, the Hellenistic period of history therefore began. Alexander the Great, therefore, also you can say caused a huge momentous change in the course of history. If he did not do what he did, the world we know would more than likely be very different. Personally, I do not think it should be any different. We are who we are today because of what had happened. Although I personal would leave plans for a successor, this is because I am very conscientious about organization and things of that nature.