"Alexander and the Macedonians carried Greek civilization into the East. It is, I believe, a historical fact that a command was issued by the king to the Greek states to worship him as a god; with this the monarchy took a new form, which went far beyond the Macedonian or Persian model, and which was destined to have immense importance in world history. How far Alexander deliberately tried to Hellenize the East remains uncertain; but the outcome certainly was that he opened up the world to a Greek."
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Victor Ehrenberg, "The Greek State", Methuen, (July 2000), p. 139.
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Macedonia was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece.
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