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Effectronica posted:I don't know how people can cite Alexander the Great, whose will declared his intention to resettle most of the ethnicities in his empire, as a good conqueror by any means. Relative to other ancient empires? Sure. Judging him by modern standards is silly.
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re: Alexanderchat from yesterday -- Effectronica posted:That's above and beyond what other empires did, really. Only the Inca attempted something similar in scope. Assyrians did it definitely as did the Egyptians, hence, you know, Book of Exodus. I think the Romans did also at least to some extent. Plus, keep in mind Alexander's motivation: from what I've read at least, the idea wasn't so much "Traill of Tears everyone we don't like into lovely lands" as "mix and integrate the empire into a whole." Disinterested posted:'Barbarian' is onomatopoetic, 'ba ba ba' is imitating the babble of a non-Greek speaker or an inept Greek speaker, and was often slung at Macedonians. As long as we're getting this technical, the Macedonians under Phillip, Alexander's father, were allowed to compete at the Olympic Games, and were thus considered Hellene. Sure they were called barbarians by people like Demosthenes but he was an rear end in a top hat anyway. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Jan 22, 2015 |
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