Sunday, April 19, 2009

Exploration can create conflict and misunderstanding

___Exploration does create conflict and misunderstanding and even wars. Actually, many wars were caused by explorations. From ancient times to theasday, explorations created lots of conflict and wars. One typical example is the Anabasis of Alexander which was a violent invasion to the Eastren.
___Alexander the great was one of the most successful king of Macedon. Macedon was a small city-state of ancient Greeks, seems it would never be notable until the war made by Alexander. he conquered Persia Egypt but failed at India. Alexander was the son of Philip 2 and ascended to the Macedonian throne when his father been killed. He began his conquer in the spring of 334 BC. The first country he invated is Persia, a large contry in Middle East ruled by Darius 3. Persian army had a great advntage ofthe total number of soidrer, thirty thousand men. Alexander and his army defeated the enemy and, according to tradition, lost only 110 men. Darius 3 fled and abandoning his mother, wife, and children. He also promised that he would like to gige half of his country to Alexander if he stop the war but Alexander refused this idea for he wanted whole Persia.
___Alexander also
conquered Syria , Phoenicia and many countries include Egypt where the priest of the temple told him that he was a son of Zeus Ammon. Alexander continued his pursuit of Darius while when he finally caught up to him, he was killed by his satra. Alexander gave Darius a royal funeral even he was Alexander's enemy. Then, Alexander killed the satra and became the king of Persia at last.
___Alexander was failed in the war of India because this country used elephant during the war and Alexander had never seen this kind of animal before. He returnd to his hometown and died in
the spring of 324.
____Alexander's invasion was a great exploration of Eatern countries. Though it was a diaster to the Eastern people and its violent made lots of damage, it stimulated the comunication between Greek and Middle East.

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