Week #4b- Daily #2- Do you think Alexander honestly felt like he was avenging Persian wrongs? Or was that just propaganda to mask his goal of conquest?

            I think that Alexander the Great was honestly avenging Persian wrongs and it was also propaganda to mask his goal of conquest. It was both. The Persians were always fighting with the Greeks, and Alexander the Great did not like them. Alexander also did not like them because they were more powerful than he was. He needed to be the one in charge. He needed to stay enemies with them, though. Alex had to always have someone to fight off so he would look like a hero. He needed to be greater than them. After all, he was Alexander the Great. The Persians killed his father, so he was already furious at them. He thought that they deserved the consequences for what they did, but he also wanted to be the ruler of the world and conquer them. He just wanted to let them know and be aware that he was the one that conquered and defeated them. He was very powerful in his mind, and he wanted them to be scared of him. I guess he was unsure of what he wanted to do to them. He just had to make himself look better. He wanted to kill their king, but he was lucky he did not; the man that killed the king ended up being his new enemy.  He could look powerful and still have an enemy to keep him busy. Alexander was lucky that it worked out for him to overpower the Persians and avenge them for their wrongs.