Alexander

Fun reading this week! I think I enjoyed reading about Alexander the Great most, as i followed his movements, battles, and feats. It is amazing how well his army performed in light of being in strange lands or against overwhelming odds. I was trying to imagine what it would have been like to see a war-elephant charging at me for the first time, not even really understanding what manner of creature it was that rushed down upon me. Really you have to wonder how much farther Alexander could have gone had he lived even another 5 or 10 years. Clearly he would have discovered that there was a much larger world out there than he had probaby thought. The reading suggested that he probably thought that India was end of that side of the world.

I now understand also why Greek culture has so impacted the world so much as opposed to other cultures and countries that have come and gone under the heel of great men and nations. Had Alexander not spread greek culture as far as he did, we probably would not have even heard of many of its philosophers, or had much reason to care.