Alexander the Great inherited the throne from his father when he was only 20 years old, during 336 BC.
At the time of inheritance, Alexander's father did not leave him with an extensive Empire. However, he was eventually able to develop one of the largest Empire's in history, that stretched from modern-day Pakistan to Greece.
My historians consider him one of the greatest military generals of all time. Eventually, after his young death, his Empire disintegrated as civil war took over.
Answer:
Eric Hobsbawm, the Marxist British historian, wrote a book called The Short Twentieth Century. The 20th Century had been shorter than other centuries because it had begun in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War and terminated of course early in November 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. The problem however, and of course we historians we like problems, is that everybody knew what we had left behind with the fall of the wall, but nobody knew what we were heading towards. As Douglas Hurd, the British Foreign Secretary at the time, put it, “this was a system [the Cold War], this was a system under which we had lived quite happily for 40 years.” Or as Adam Michnik, again my Polish solidarity intellectual, put it “The worst thing about communism is what comes afterwards.” While our populations were in jubilation in front of the television screens or on the streets of Berlin, governments were, it has to be said, seriously worried about the implications of this unforeseen, uncontrolled and uncontrollable collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the communist system. Tom Wolf, the American author, at the time had a bestseller called the Bonfire of the Vanities and a British MP that I knew at the time famously rephrased that as the ‘bonfire of the certainties.’ All of the reference points with which we’d lived for half a century and which had organized our diplomacy, our military strategy, our ideology, were like as many props that were suddenly pulled from us.
Answer:
Neolithic Revolution.
Explanation:
The Neolithic Revolution is a term that refers to the transformation of ancient civilizations from hunter-gatherer societies to societies where people made a living mainly through agriculture and animal husbandry. This is also the change that marked the transition between the older and younger Stone Age. The oldest traces of grain cultivation and animal husbandry are about 11,000 years old, and come from Southwest Asia (the fertile crescent), but an independent development towards agriculture also took place in Central America and China. The term "the Neolithic revolution" refers to the great effect this change had on the organization of the societies that began to cultivate instead of living as hunters and gatherers.
When history is revived by one
The Pilgrims tried to survive on stale food left over from their long voyage. Many of the Pilgrims were sick. Many of them died, probably of pneumonia and scurvy. ... Of the 132 Pilgrims and crew who left England, only fifty-three of them survived the first winter.
