ABSTRACT
A change in the course of Western history was initiated by the conquests of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 bce) who successfully united the Greek peoples in opposition to Persian hegemony and, in the process, established a GraecoMacedonian empire that extended from the Aegean in the West to the Indus River in India and from the Black Sea in the North to Nubia and the Sahara in Africa (Figure 3.1).
