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Alexander the great.................
By almost any historical standard, the life and achievements of Alexander the Great have to be considered among the most spectacular (albeit bloody) in human history. In a little over a decade, he took a splintered and fragmented group of Greek city-states and united them, and challenged the greatest military powers of his day, the Indians and the Persians. Not only that, but he actually won, defeating all comers and establishing a short-lived empire that wouldn't be surpassed until the coming of the Romans centuries later.
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