homework--Alexander the Great

For tonight, watch the clips from In the Footsteps of Alexander the great listed below (the numbers are the minutes in the video when you should start watching--should be around 45 minutes in total).  On your blog, post a response to what you watch: Does Alexander deserve to be called "The Great?" Why or why not?

Part 2 "Lord of Asia"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJnuMBZnAbQ

2:00-8:00 In Iraq, on the plane with the Brits

28:26-34:00ish Persepolis burns

43:53-47:40 death of Darius

Part 3 Across the Hindu Kush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=277cyzL5nLc

It opens in Kabul, which shows what the city looked like before the US invasion...not pretty. And they go to the equivalent of the MFA in Kabul, and that’s upsetting...

7:00 Hindu Kush upward to 11:00 Gives a good look at the terrain, and once again, car trouble...

18:37 Woods finds the root plant and tries to eat it, through the gunfire of bandits and the summit 23:00—nothing stopped him, nothing put him off…

36:30-38:30 Bessus captured, Alexandria the farthermost founded.

45:00-47:30 Cleitus' death

52:00 Marry Roxanne-declaration of worship as a god, Persian style. Assassination attempt, and falling out with Calisthenes 57:30

Part 4 "To the Ends of the Earth"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5HzkRO8TGA

32:30-36:30 on the wall

46:00 final march begins 48:30 water dumping incident

last five minutes of fourth disc: 50-55 minutes Death of Alexander in Babylon