- Alexander won because of strategy
- He was important enough for the Great King of Persia to notice
- King Darius not only lost, but fled
- Alexander showed nobility in his treatment of the royal women
- Military payroll problem solved with plunder
- Alexander expanded his empire.
Motives of Alexander the Great
In From Alexander to Cleopatra, Michael Grant says Alexander's motives were
- to show that as a Macedonian he was better than the Greeks
- to surpass his father
- to fulfill his father's desire for vengeance against Persia.
