re: Was Alex the Great the greatest conqueror in history?

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Subutei conquered on his own more territory than Alexander, and Genghis Khan was his boss and the creator and organizer of the nation that produced the army Subutei led, as well as several other armies.

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No, I wouldn't call him the 'creator' of them as they all came into being by each other's power, and Subutai kept conquering for two Khans long after Genghis died, so you're defeating your own point about the empire expanding after death. He did not already have a large empire that the generals signed up for, or whatever picture you have in your head. Subutai met him before he was even called GK.

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And its military strategies are also taught in military schools

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Not nearly as much as Alexander's.

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greatest conqueror

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means defeater of other peoples, imo. There is no time requirement, especially when you die at 32.

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if anyone is jacking off to YouTube

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It's definitely you.

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again, Genghis Khan started from zero

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Again, so did his generals, They all came up together.

Genghis Khan would have been nothing without his generals. Alexander was the primary general and he's the only one suggested in this thread who can say he led from the front.

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my guy

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Cyrus the Great doesn’t get enough credit as a straight-up conqueror because people usually focus on his “good ruler” reputation instead of the fact he built one of the first real mega-empires. The guy rolled through the Medes, Lydia, and Babylon like it was nothing and stitched together a massive chunk of the ancient world in a pretty short span of time.

Compared to names like Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan, he should be in the same conversation for pure expansion and efficiency.

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no one wrote about Alexander the Great until hundreds of years after his death, so as far as we know he didn't even exist.

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This might be the dumbest post I've ever seen on here.

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Plus Alexander started off in a much more powerful position than Genghis.

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Understatement of the year! Genghis started with nothing! Alexander started with the greatest army the world had ever seen.