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Post by Jean Lannes on Apr 14, 2016 2:52:12 GMT
If anybody doesn't know either one of these I recommend you search them up as both shaped their and our world massively. Alexander should generally be known but Cyrus is much less famous even though he did do some impressive stuff. He did bring the first human rights, gave religious freedom, etc. He was also the founder of the Achaemenid Empire
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Post by Jean Lannes on Apr 14, 2016 2:56:03 GMT
I myself am pro Cyrus as he build the largest empire in the whole world (by % of world population (44.6%)) and his countless conquests. He also was very tolerant to the people he conquered. He gave the Jews religious freedom for example and also stated that every man is equal thus there was no slavery in his empire. But the best part about him is that his empire survived after his death. The Sassanids did kinda revive it so it lived on up to Nader Shah who was probably the last reviver becoming Asia's last big powerhouse before the West came in
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Post by Mountbatten on Apr 14, 2016 3:29:37 GMT
Which Alexander and Cyrus are you talking about?
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Post by Jean Lannes on Apr 14, 2016 4:35:18 GMT
Which Alexander and Cyrus are you talking about? Alexander the Great from Macedonia and Cyrus the Great from Persia |
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Post by General William T. Sherman on Apr 14, 2016 10:14:46 GMT
Cyrus, as Alexander's empire collapsed after his death because he didn't have an hier to the throne when he died, and Alexander dd not give freedom of religion and slaughtered those were not polytheistic such as the Zoroastrians and to a lesser extent the Jews.
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Post by Singlemalt on Apr 14, 2016 10:26:24 GMT
Alexander 4 sure ... Probably biased by western education
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Post by Napoleon Bonaparte on Apr 14, 2016 11:55:55 GMT
Alexander, I've heard he came all the way to Karachi (no joke) when his troops were finally like "are you sending us home or not!?"
I don't know much about him.
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Post by Horatio Nelson on Apr 14, 2016 23:05:47 GMT
Alexander soley based on him crying because he was looking at the sky (planets) and was saddened because he wasn't able to conquer all of the planets.
Aaaaaaand he was a "Westerner".
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