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What's the first characteristic of Alexander when he becomes king, okay? Echo, do you have any ideas of what he will do as king? Exactly, okay? So, the first thing we will say is that he will focus on expansion, okay? He'll be a very aggressive risk -taker. He will take risks that are not strategically wise, okay? That's the first prediction we can make about him. What's the second prediction we can make about him based on this? Exactly, and we call this a tyrant, okay? He's gonna become a tyrant, and a tyrant is someone who, who demands obedience from everyone, okay? Does that make sense? And so, if he's a tyrant, what is he gonna do to all these tyrant people that his father promoted? He's gonna kill them, right? 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At the same time, we want to be generous and skeptical, okay? We want to ask ourselves, is it possible that we are blinded by our prejudice? And maybe we are being unfair to Alexander the Great, okay? Does that make sense? All right, so let's start with the first major event in Alexander the Great's life, which is the death of his father in 333 BCE, okay? And Alexander right now, he's only 20. And when his father dies, he is automatically coronated as the king of Macedon. Now, I want to explain the circumstances of Philip's death, because it's very important for us to understand the sort of psychology of his son. So two years before his death, Philip actually remarried, okay? 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So the son will be, the son will be a very aggressive risk t..." } ] }, { "term": "legitimate heir", "usages": [ "The succession claim that Attalus invokes at the wedding toast and that Jiang treats as an insult to Alexander because it implies Alexander is not fully legitimate." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0009" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 604.76, "end": 685.07, "time_label": "10:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay, and actually at the wedding ceremony Between Eurydice and Philip, Attalus gave a toast and he said here's a toast and I pray that Macedon will soon have a legitimate here and this is direct insult to Alexander. 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The other wives have faile..." } ] }, { "term": "succession violence", "usages": [ "The chain of killing and threatened rebellion after Philip's assassination, where rival heirs and military-aligned rivals become immediate targets or threats." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0010" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0009", "segment_id": "seg-0009", "start": 604.76, "end": 685.07, "time_label": "10:04", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay, and actually at the wedding ceremony Between Eurydice and Philip, Attalus gave a toast and he said here's a toast and I pray that Macedon will soon have a legitimate here and this is direct insult to Alexander. 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And what's t..." } ] } ], "chronology_notes": [ { "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0007" ], "note": "The transcript says Philip's death occurs in 333 BCE while nearby source context later says 336 BCE; preserve the source wording and treat this as a possible transcript or lecture-date inconsistency.", "possible_update_to_prior_position": false, "confidence": "medium", "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-iturb48of9y@transcript:v1#seg-0007", "segment_id": "seg-0007", "start": 455.94, "end": 522.527, "time_label": "7:35", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Alexander the Great, and we're gonna see that on the surface, it does actually capture well, or explains well. What is his life? At the same time, we want to be generous and skeptical, okay? 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