what did he achieve that someone before him did not lol? Cyrus the great was the only great king of that time, he was the first king who gained the title the "the great" alexander was rapist and destroyer of cities that is all.
the **** of Cyrus was worth more than this pathetic thing who you call "the great".
he is only remembered because hollywood and west make a film or documentary about him every day.
people like Cyrus the great are truly remembered, he is someone who is refereed to as father even today.
Not just today, for next million years. As long as there are Iranians walking this Earth, he will be our father.
He was a truly amazing man, just imagine. he created the first superpower on earth, no one before created anything even close to him, but yet he remained a just and kind leader. he allowed people to have their own religion, he even freed jews from babylon.
he even created first chapter of humans right. and now we have some kids saying this rapist called alexander was "great" lol
this is how pathetic these westerns are. so many of them steal eastern culture and achievements, like how they steal Indian,Chinese and Persian maths achievements and say they created it.
How do you know Alexander did not die in battle? was you there? unless you know what happened then don't create random theories.
Cyrus the great is very knowed here in UK, especially amongst the academics, I learn alot of what I know about Cyrus from discussion from people in Oxford, and ultimately I compared what they said to what professional in Iran said and then I came to a conclusion for myself. of course what happened 2600 years ago could be very doctored today. now days the young population I seen they don't even know anything about their own country nevermind the like of cyrus. what they learn they do so from films. and most famous films come from hollywood. so only reason alexander is even knows today is mostly because if the film and the documentaries about him. I seen people even actually wonder and ask question like " Did persian really have monsters like in 300?" after them watching 300.
The west is very biased towards eastern culture, because they are very afraid of east. they know eastern culture were light years more advanced than theirs. I mean compare mesepotamia,Elam,Egypt and indus vally to anything west had lol.
I never see west making any films about Elam, summer,indus even though sooo much great things is there for films. their films is always about Rome or some stupid films about ancient greece...
so of course I am not surprised that some Canadian guy likes Alexander more than Cyrus...
You are way off and you are blinded by nationalistic pride.
Facts for you. Greeks were and are obsessed with history. There are numerous accounts from very different sources that indicate that Alexander died out of illness.
Alexander you like it or not was the one of the two or three men that changed history by themselves and their determination to succeed.
Cyrus, Darious, Xerxes , they were all defeated. Actually without Herrodotus, another Greek, you wouldn't know much about Cyuus.
Personal grudges have nothing to do with real history. You can find real history in the earth. you just have to dig for it.
and people have been digging for years. They have found nothing that takes away anything from the glory of Alexander. If nothing it adds to it.
I have seen an authentic Macedonian shield and a spear. I have seen them. Even today it takes a very strong man to lift one.
The spear head is now 2300 years old. You can still use it. You sharpen it and you fix it on a pole and it will kill someone today just as it did 23 centuries ago. That is a know how no other culture had. That is something we cannot do today!!!
it was a combination of leadership and culture than brought those victories.
And if your favorite ancient persians were so awesome, they could have defeated Alexander. after all they outnumbered him every single step of the way.