Life in Alexander's Army.

My name is Ivan, Alexander just led us to victory against the Persians.  Now he is making us go against another city state.  I really would rather be at home with my family, but I have to do it.  It will bring more power to Alexander the Great and Macedonia.  We lost men against Persia, but now we have taken the Persian army and mixed it with ours.  More people means a better army, and a better army means more land captured.  Maybe I can go home when we capture more land.

I personally don't think that Alexander is a great person.  I have not met him in person, but him making me and all the troops battle again when were told we could leave isn't good.  It makes me think he is a liar and that he is selfish.  He also makes the troops that were in the defeated army fight with us.  They have no choice.  And then we use them in the mix of our army.  I think that this makes us a little weaker because we just defeated them.  We have no idea if they had been defeated by the armies that surrounded them.  It is a bad move for Alexander to make.

Alexander doesn't make the Macedonian way of life the standard in his captured land.  This blends the culture and makes the overall Macedonian culture distorted and fuzzy to outside empires.  It makes the people that are newly taken into Macedonia happier, that's a good thing.  I think that it is better for Macedonia's citizens to be on Alexander's side than against him.  This helps Alexander to have the citizens like him.  But for the military it is different.  We have to try and communicate with them if they don't speak our language.  This can be frustrating and can start arguments and fights.  This does hurt us when we are on the battlefield.

Alexander the Great can be compared with Abraham Lincoln.  Abraham Lincoln was educated, but not like Alexander was, Lincoln was mostly self taught and had no formal education.  Lincoln helped all the people that were enslaved, he signed and executive order that freed the slaves.  Then once the Confederacy surrendered, all the slaves now worked for their previous owners, but now they were paid.  This made a lot of people like him, and a lot of people dislike him.  

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