I don’t know about that. You realize Alexander was a 20 year old kid when Phillip died right? That’s a college sophomore. He didn’t build anything. His dad’s phalanx was already perfected. His dad’s generals (Parmenion, Cleitus, Antigonus One Eye, Antipater) were hardbody and they helped Alexander win his battles. Think of it like Robb Stark in Game of Thrones with Robb being Alexander and the Northern lords like the Umbers, Manderlys, Mormonts, Glovers and the Karstarks being the older generals from Ned Stark’s (Phillip) era who held him down army wise. Also, Phillip invented the Sarissa which was a longer spear in comparison to most armies so it made their phalanx nearly unbeatable since they could stab nikkas from further away. Lastly, Alexander’s main strategy was to try to divide the opposing army. He’d try to rush his wing of the army to the right side of the field hoping the opposite side would follow leaving their army stretched thin. This is where those older generals like Antipater and Parmenion were so valuable because they had to hold the left side of the field by themselves while Alexander’s side tried to the circle/flank the opponent. Then Alexander would rush back over to the center of the field before the other side could and break through the middle of their army. Then it was over. He did this verbatim in like 3 battles. Phillip used the same strategy before so he picked that up from his father. Basically Alexander was great of course but you can’t shyt on his dad. His dad gave him an army, a powerful country with endless resources to start with, control of Greece, a top class education and loyal generals (well loyal as long as it benefited them) who could help him win battles. If he didn’t inherit that at 20, he would’ve spent another 20 to 25 years building up to just get to that point like Phillip and we might’ve never heard the name Alexander because he might’ve died of the flu/fever that killed him before he got the chance to go to Asia. Basically Phillip put in the ground work that allowed Alexander to be able to go off and conquer the world. That’s what Cleitus was talking about when Alexander was talking about his father wasn’t shyt compared to him when his father gave him the ancient equivalent of a billion dollar trust fund
@Cory Matthews was Philip II of Macedon the equivalent of a billionaire in our day in terms of how much wealth/power he had when he was living?
. With that being said they were more so large kingdoms and not really "empires empires". In terms of straight up empires maybe Persian empire, Rome or the Ottomans or British.
