On the way, whilst stopping over at Kirkwall, Haakon became ill and died.At the time of Alexander's death his Queen, Yolande, had been pregnant. The Thanksgiving Feast at Susa, which had been geared towards solidifying the bond between Persians and Macedonians, shaped up to be quite the opposite.Next up on Alexander's agenda was his campaign to conquer Egypt. Jews were totally disfranchised. His heir, Margaret, Maid of Norway, died before she could be crowned. In time, however, the Persian and Greek cultures blended and prospered as a result of his rule.By autumn 334 Alexander had crossed the southern coast of Asia Minor (now Turkey). Desperate to retain his leadership and recruit more soldiers, he tried to connect Persian nobles to Macedonians in order to create a ruling class. Fearing defeat, Alexander arranged for negotiations to be held at Arran. He was just 32 years old. Over the course of three years, Aristotle taught Alexander and a handful of his friends philosophy, poetry, drama, science and politics. The League gave Alexander unlimited military powers to attack Persia, a large kingdom to the east of Greece.Alexander's relationship and military cooperation with his father ended soon after Philip took control of the Corinthian League. But under the passport law of June 1894, peasant were still denied a passport—that is, the right to seek employment outside the village—without the consent of the village assembly.Alexander III is known as the "czar peacemaker" because under his rule the empire remained at peace except for minor, although costly, military expeditions in central Asia. Alexander and Olympia were forced to flee Macedonia and stay with Olympia's family in Epirus until Alexander and King Philip II were able to reconcile their differences.After Alexander died, his empire collapsed and the nations within it battled for power.
During the festival that followed, King Philip II was murdered at the hands of Pausanias, a Macedonian noble.Even though Alexander was the feudal king of Macedonia, he didn't obtain automatic control of the Corinthian League. His marriage to the daughter of Henry III of England, Margaret, had produced three children.
Under the influence of Konstantin Pobedonostsev he opposed any reform that limited his autocratic rule.
However, Alexander’s elder stepbrother Philip III Arrideo had intellectual disabilities and hence was declared unfit to be the king. In Asia Minor, Alexander cut the famous Gordian Knot. Eben Alexander III MD. During his turbulent minority years Scotland was governed by rival factions that vied for influence.