Alexander the Great became the ruler of Europe’s first empire butit was his father that united Greece under Macedonian hegemony withplans for a campaign to liberate the Greeks of Asia Minor fromPersian yoke under his leadership.
Whenever a Greek state became supreme, that supremacy entailed thedepression of some states and the dependency or subjection ofothers like Athens, in the day of her triumph did to Athens in thePeloponnesian Wars. As the eminent historian, J.B. Bury writes,”Athens was reduced to a secondary place by Macedon, and Thebesfared still worse; As the hegemony or first place among Greekstates had passed successively from Athens to Sparta, and toThebes, so now it passed to Macedon”.

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Alexander took up the mantle of Philips campaign after hisassassination and went on to conquer the Persian Empire whichspanned three continents – from Greece in Europe, through Asia totoday’s Afghanistan, Iran, through the south to Egyp and finally toPakistan and India.

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