John Lavine when she committed adultery with a Scottish trader, James Hamilton. When Alexander was only an infant, James Hamilton left his family. This abandonment left Alexander and his mother suffering poverty for most of his early adolescence. School was not a large part of Alexander’s childhood, for his formal education was minimal. After his mother’s death in 1768, Hamilton
honour of Alexander the great, what makes this city so unique for me and why I think that Alexander is one of my top five important parts of history that we have learned in the last three weeks is because it became a hub for human knowledge and at the time had the biggest library known to man. Though the library was burned the fact that the principle established by Alexander the Great allowed for the creation of a hub for human learning, is in my mind the most important legacy left behind by Alexander