The text states that Alexander "was not asking [the troops] to take any risks he would not take himself." What benefits would this have on the soldiers in battle?

This is a technique commonly used by leaders 'to inspire' their subordinates.

Explanation:

It communicates to the soilders, or those being lead, that they're not beneath the leader (ie. the leader and those being led are unified in action). If leaders would have soilders do the same things as them, then an aire of trust and respect in inspired between both parties. This usually results in the troops giving the leader all of the effort they can muster.

newton is important because he contributed more to the development of science than any other person in history. isaac newton is remembered as the greatest scientific genius who ever lived. his discoveries about physics, light, and mathematics changed the world.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.