If You Think About It, The Emperor Of Mankind From Warhammer40k Is Very Similar To Alexander The Great.

If you think about it, the Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer40k is very similar to Alexander the Great.

1. The Emperor fought the Unification Wars to unify the humans on Earth and together start the Great Crusade across the stars to conquer the galaxy.

Alexander unified the Hellenic City states and together started the campaign against the Persians and conquer the east.

2. The Emperor faced some rebellions while in his Great Crusade

Some City States like Athens rebelled against the rule of Alexander while he was in his campaign

3. The Emperor brought in his crusade Historians, cartographers, scientists and explorers (the Mars mechanicum) to find and reserve new technologies, to conduct researches etc.

Alexander also brought in his campaign historians, cartographers, scientists and explorers.

4. The Emperor died (kinda) right before his crusade was over.

Alexander also died right before his campaign was over (he had plans to head for the west after he went to India)

5. They both left an empire of great scale that was fragmented into smaller peaces with different rulers each (Alexander's land was fragmented to the Ptolemaic Kingdom, the kingdom of Pergamon, the Seleucid Empire and the kingdom of Macedon. The Emperor's Imperium was divided to Segmentums: The Segmentum Ultima, Tempestus, Obscurus, Solar and Pacificus).

6. Finally both were powerful figures with great strategic skills and unmatched wisdom and sometimes were viewed as gods (the Egyptians viewed Alexander as a god and Lorgar with his legion viewed the Emperor as a divine being).