I'm gonna show you how great I am.

This was our fighting power.

I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.

Hello and welcome to how to Take Over the World.

This is Ben Wilson.

This episode has been a long time coming.

It's one that I'm very excited for.

And what can you possibly say about Alexander the Great?

He's one of the most impactful men of history.

He's possibly the greatest conqueror of all time.

He established an enormous empire, the likes of which the world had never seen,

from the Balkans in the west to India in the east, from Armenia in the north to Egypt and the south.

As the Greco-Roman biographer, Aryan would later say,

one can point to no other man, Greek or barbarian, who performed exploits so numerous and so momentous.

And I am inclined to agree. It's also just a great adventure story. who performed exploits so numerous and so momentous.

And I am inclined to agree.

It's also just a great adventure story.

One of the reasons that I love the life story of Alexander is that he was the last great military leader who swung his own sword.

He was himself a gifted horseman and powerful warrior,

who was an integral part of his own battles and fought from the front.

The final reason that I'll mention that I love this story is that he inspired so many other

greats. Napoleon studied his campaigns, and Julius Caesar famously had his life changed by

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