Alexander the Great was this 18-year-old conqueror who just obliterated all of the structures and expectations

politically and socially of the whole world.

For my money, after Jesus of Nazareth himself, he is the most influential human being in the history of human beings.

No joke, here's my case for it.

He rewrote the map, went and conquered everything, redrew all the boundaries, but more importantly, he just wrecked the cultural, social, linguistic boundaries.

He brought with him the Greek language and a whole bunch of people who wanted to be married who were Greek.

And he intermingled the Greeks and the Macedonians and the Anatolians, modern day Turkey, and eventually, even though this was a point of some tension and regret the Jewish people the Egyptians Alexandria is in Egypt that's named for Alexander because he made it

The modern-day Iraqis the modern-day Iranians all of the people in between, the Persians, the Meads, even the Indians

get roped into what he's doing, and effectively, he even shapes life on the Italian peninsula,

which gradually would displace the center of power on the Greek peninsula to the Greek-a-fied everything and that changed planet Earth but there were a couple of

pivotal battles in there that are really curious when you zoom in all the way to the

level of what actually happened on the battlefield. Now Alexander was tutored by literally Aristotle himself.

So he was a good teacher, he had a good sense of what happened on a battlefield

and how to manage his business there and he had the complete trust of his allies and his teammates.

And so I'm back-to-back battles, the Battle of Isis and the Battle of Gogamilla.

Or Gegib, the point is I don't know how it's pronounced.

It always sounds like gargamel to me,

but I'm pretty sure that's not how it said.

So just fill it in in your own brain, there's a battle that was important.

Here's what Alexander did that is so fascinating.

He would always set up his right hand man, he'd always put him on his left.

This is a guy named Parmenion and his job in both of these battles is just hold the line,

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