Outlines of European history . was still unknown. He brought a number of scientific men withhim from Greece, and with their aid he sent hundreds of natural-history specimens home to Greece to his old teacher Aristotle,then teaching in Athens. Meantime he applied himself with diligence to the organiza-tion and administration of his vast conquests. Such problemsmust have kept him tediously bending over many a huge pileof state papers, or dictating his great plans to his secretariesand officers. He believed implicitly in the power and superiorityof Greek culture. He was determined to Hellenize th
Outlines of European history . was still unknown. He brought a number of scientific men withhim from Greece, and with their aid he sent hundreds of natural-history specimens home to Greece to his old teacher Aristotle,then teaching in Athens. Meantime he applied himself with diligence to the organiza-tion and administration of his vast conquests. Such problemsmust have kept him tediously bending over many a huge pileof state papers, or dictating his great plans to his secretariesand officers. He believed implicitly in the power and superiorityof Greek culture. He was determined to Hellenize the worldand to merge Asia with Europe by transplanting colonies ofGreeks and Macedonians. In his army, Macedonian, Greek, andAsiatic stood side by side. He himself felt that he could notrule the world as a Macedonian, but must make concessions tothe Persian world (Plate V, p. 224). He married Roxana, anAsiatic princess, and at a gorgeous wedding festival he obligedhis officers and friends also to marry the daugliters of Asiatic. ID c (U U 13 3 a (fl C O Oto o 5 3 13 ji: ja w o C a: 4J 0 o H U O l; a [/I o C/3 3 « 3 >- U E 3 uj p S ( o 3 ^ o rt OJ c^ 1> C do E o 2 OJ re < ^ jn 2 ^ o o OJ cA CJ o C ra 5 ^ co u Q c rt < z -< 4J w L. o i» bJJ OJ o rt X c p^ u til rt G 4) H T3 _d d 6 i; C .ti o ^ OJ g -o nJ PL. c v: s < o _^ _j_, j:: CTJ hH Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age 225 nobles. Thousands of Macedonians in the army followed theexample of their royal lord and took Asiatic wives. He appointedPersians to high offices and set them over provinces as even adopted Persian raiment in part. Amid all this he carefully worked out a complete plan of Alexandercampaign for the conquest of the western Mediterranean, in- forthecon-^eluding instructions for the building of a fleet of a thousand quest of the ° ° western Med- battleships with which to
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