But before talking about all of the things that he conquered, let's think about how he got started out, and in particular, how he's able to consolidate control over the empire that his father begins. So in the last video, we saw that exiting the Peloponnesian War, the Greeks were weak. Sparta and its allies, the Peloponnesian League, they had won, but the Greeks were ripe for being conquered, and they end up being conquered by Philip II, king of Macedonia, and he rules from Pella, and shortly after he becomes king, his son, his first son, Alexander is born, and Alexander is the son that Philip has with Olympias. Olympias is the daughter of the king of Melosia, which makes her Melosian, and not Macedonian, which is going to be somewhat important later on when Philip II dies. But the early part of Alexander's life is quite good, and he seems to be in favor with his father, Philip II. After all, Alexander seems like a decent heir to the throne. Early in his life, he gets from his father what is arguably the best tutor, for sure, of the time, probably the best tutor in human history, in Aristotle, and the way that his father convinces him to tutor Alexander when Alexander's 13, and he tutors him from when Alexander's about 13 to about 16, is Philip destroys Aristotle's village of Stagira as he conquers Greece, and Aristotle says, okay, sure, I'll tutor your son, but in exchange for that, why don't you rebuild my hometown and free all of the people who had been enslaved after the town was conquered?