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So, I'm sure this idea comes up every now and then. Lets say he survives his disease and consolidates his conquests. He expands. South into Arabia (ignoring the interior as empty, for now) and pushing west along the coast of the Mediterranean. He builds Alexandrias all across the empire and his sons grow of age under his tutelage and those of Greek philosophers. He dies in the 290s or so and Philip takes over.

Do the Alexandrias help consolidate cultural ideas and create a sense of empire? He has conquered really everything he can, the Indians are too tough and the northern Europeans have nothing really to conquer at this time.

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