Alexander killed Philip’s loyal men to make his own empire, which caused his generals to fear they were next and conspire to poison him.
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Poisoning
Alexander killed Philip’s loyal men to make his own empire, which caused his generals to fear they were next and conspire to poison him.
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"so um this is a map of his conquest okay um this is the burning of Persepolis you can actually still visit Persepolis uh..."
"...chemical doing its job and then doing its other job is poisoning you slowly that's why i want to tell you about the bearskin..."
"...him, okay, so again, this is negating, the Iliad, it's actually poisoning, and corrupting the Iliad, all right, so, now, Aeneas is talking about..."
"...this case, they say, look, these convulsions are more indicative of poisoning than they are of a stroke, okay? So there's certain people, and..."
"...it. And as a result, he had a lot of mercury poisoning problems. He couldn't sleep. He had delusions. His hair was falling out...."
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