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The statement is awkward and grammatically incorrect. It should read The death of Alexander of Macedonia, commonly called Alexander the Great, was a history changing event. I don't know why this is in the history section. Unless, you are looking for another answer.
The Death of Alexander of Macedonia, called the great, was a history changing event!
Because Alexander The Great never died.
He seemed to die, but never putrefied. And that was strange being that the event occurred in Babylon (Baghdad). That, to the Greeks, seemed to verify that Alexander The Great was, indeed, a God and would never die.
So they called for the embalmers to embalm him with honey, which, as everyone knows, never rots either. Then, because the party holding the body of this God gathered the most territory, a shell game began in an effort to conceal the true location of the body.
And they lost it. To this day the body of Alexander the Great has never been found. He is alive, embalmed in honey, but no one has ever found him.
PS: Modern scholars believe that Al became ill somehow and lapsed into a coma. The process of embalming him with honey ended the coma, no doubt....
It didn't change history in his time (which was what had happened before then).
It didn't change the history of the future, which is our time.
It's impossible to change history.
You seem to misunderstand the point. The statement is considered by me to be incorrect.
You seem to agree with me and then agree yet again.
I made an inquiry about your intentions for this thread. I took no position on any issue, so there was no agreement for you to see.
I understood that you were stating that the death of Alexander was not a history changing event. If you want others to debate the idea, my feeling is that you are obligated to start things by explaining the reasons behind your position.
Need to add quotation marks, capitals, and a hyphen, remove the exclamation point, and clarify which Alexander, andstating the name of his provenance into accepted contemporary form. If you retain the commas, it places "The Great" into a syntactical presumption that there was only one Alexander of Macedon.
The Death of Alexander III of Macedon, called "The Great", was a history-changing event.
Is this another "do my homework for me" thread?
Besides the grammatical errors - His death was insignificant as he had already made his mark in history. His kingdom and his armies had already reached the limits of it's conquests. His life was the history-changine event, not his death.
I guess you can argue that his premature and sudden death, without a clear heir, caused some instability and resulted in the empire being divided in ways that would not have occured had he lived to old age.
The reference, history changing event, is often used in historical texts. History is the study of that which has occurred. It therefore follows that there can be no history changing event.
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