In it he said he wanted: "transplant of populations from Asia to Europe and in the opposite direction from Europe to Asia, in order to bring the largest continent to common unity and to friendship by means of intermarriage and family ties." A
lexander the Great, or Alexander III of Macedon, was a king of Macedon in the fourth century BC.
By thirty years old, he was responsible for one of the largest empires of the ancient world.
To this day he is considered one of history's most successful commanders. Before his death, he had given detailed written instructions as his last will.
Though Craterus, his successor, started to carry them out, the following kings didn't. Included were things like the construction of a tomb for his father large enough to match the pyramids of Egypt, the erection of massive temples in Delos, Delphi, Dium, and more, and the erection of a temple to Athena at Troy.
Also detailed was the conquest of Arabia and the Mediterranean Basin, circumnavigation of Africa, and of course the development of cities and movement of populations across Asia and Europe to bring better unity to the landmass.
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