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-- Anonymous, January 30, 2005

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THE AREA AND MAP OF THE EMPIRE OF ALEXANDAR

-- Anonymous, March 05, 2005

There were several things Alexander contributed to the world. First he helped bring about a better understanding of the different cultures that existed in the Middle and Near East. Before this time the Greeks used to call anyone who was not Greek a Barbarian. This had nothing to do with another peoples accomplishments but only language. The term Barbarian came from the Ancient Greeks thinking that everyone who didn't speak Greek sounded like "bar bar bar bar". He in a sense was the first to create "multiculturalism".

The next thing that occured due to his conquering was a new form of Greek. Before this thier were many Greek dialects and because of this it made it hard for people, who were not Greek, to communicate and trade with the Greeks. So what happened is a new form of Greek based on the Athenian "Attic" dialect was created for trade and government. This new Greek called "Koini"(pronounced 'Key-knee') was the Greek that was used to write the first bible with.

Third, his submission of most of the Greek city states except for Sparta(indirectly) helped unify the Greek or Hellenistic people. This was the first time in history this happened. Unfortunatly this only happened in mainland Greece. Because his successors(Diadochi) split his empire up and continuously fought each other for control. These new empires did last close to 300 years each though. His most famous sucessor was Ptolemy who became ruler(Pharoah) of Egypt and one of his descendants was Cleopatra VII. She is the one that was involved with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar. Ptolemies son was the one who built the "famous" Library of Alexandria" which became the worlds center for education, science, poetry, mathematics, etc.It was here that Archimedes designed his "screw shaped water pump" still in use today. It was here that Eratosthenes measured the diameter of the earth and it was here that Euclid discovered the rules of Geometry. Another Ptolemy several hundred years later(not related to the King) wrote a scientific work called the Almagest, which was the most influential book on the "Nature of the Universe" for 1500 years up until the time of the scientific revolution. Ptolemy(Alexanders successor) was also the one who built the Pharos Lighthouse, which was one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world.

He opened the door for the Romans to become an empire, due to all the maps that were created during his time and the new doors of communication which he opened. If Alexander had not died so young he was planning on going west next and conquering the entire Mediterranean world(including Rome which was already sending him embassies). So you can say if Alexander didn't die so young the Roman empire would have never existed and the history of the western world would have changed completely as we know it.

There are so many things that can be contributed to his campaigns that I could go on and on about them. But I believe thes few will be enough for what you need.

-- Anonymous, January 30, 2005