Similarities Between Khan And Alexander The Great

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Two Emperors Make History
Even in two different eras, two men can be more similar than different. In July 356 BC, Alexander the Great was born to Philip of Macedonia, ruler of the Macedonian empire. After successfully conquering two million miles of land, Alexander returned to Babylon where he died of disease on June tenth, 323 BC. 1,485 years later, Genghis Khan was born to a mongolian chieftain or clan leader. He successful conquered and united twelve million miles of land and died of disease in 1227 AD. Both rulers lead entirely different empires but both were similar in their style of ruling and more. Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great were similar in many ways.
The desire to conquer has to start somewhere and for these two rulers, it started near the same age. Alexander the Great "Assumed the throne at age 12 (or 21)" after his father was murdered. The death of his father lead Alexander to accomplish what his father did not get the chance to do; Conquer the Persian Empire. Avenging his …show more content…

After taking over Persia, Alexander adapted to the Persian ways and even took a Persian wife. Alexander was kind to others and "Saw no difference between Greeks and barbarians - all were brothers". Alexander accepted that he could not unify the entire world under the one culture so he let everyone have the freedom of religion and any other traditions they had. Because of this, the people in Alexander’s empire were open to him and never thought of revolting. Kahn was very similar to Alexander in his views. Khan was kind to all in his empire as long as you listened to and did what he said. Khan gave equal rights to women and “... granted religious freedom to everyone”. Just as in ALexander’s empire, the people in Khan’s empire were content with Khan and his views so they never felt the need to revolt. Both Khan and Alexander had a way of keeping their people content and preventing

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