Seriously, Hello Legend, I mean no disrespect . . . but what would you consider as evidence that Alexander had a significant legacy? Because I'm stuck. As far as I can tell, the criteria you've set out mean that the legacy must be known throughout all of society. Given the immense numbers of people unaware of the origins of many many different things, I don't see how it can be conclusively demonstrated that anyone or anything has what you'd term a significant legacy.
Nobody knows the name of the man who invented the world's first flush toilet....HelloLegend would probably claim that, therefore, the flush toilet is not a signifigant invention.
I have a new point... You are making personal attacks.
Nobody's made personal attacks. Your paranoia may have had you interpret peoples' frustration as attacks on you, but there were no attacks.
Whereas our discussions are best served without those kinds of attacks.
True...but then, our discussions are also best served with you actually paying attention to what we're saying.
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Soccer Mom = nothing, exactly my point. NOTHING.
But that Soccer Mom has most likely been to DC...and still does not know the role of Alexander the Great, or Plato, or any of the heroes of the wars against Persia, Judea, or the Romans.
I'm not denying the "invisible" influences... a change in the spice make up in the diet. A different bread. I'm just saying, you don't SEE or FEEL him the way you would in Washington D.C.
You're not asking "what is his legacy?"....you're asking "was there any copy-what-Alexander built, after he'd been dead for 2,000 years?"
Alexander's invasion of Middle East/India comparable to Mongol Invasion of
China... something the locals eventually recovered from...
Like how Britain recovered from the Romans?
Goto Washington D.C., and see how the Greco-Roman presence is FELT.
Senators, the alphabet, buildings.
You're confusing Hellenistic inheritance with pre-Hellenistic feelings. In the 1700s and 1800s, Britain and the infant US found it fashionable to copy from Greece -- who were, after all "the Heirs of Homer".
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Why would I make "your debate points for you"
If you wish to make debate points, make them.
Do you know how to listen to a suggestion?
Or are you saying that you want to be handed a summary of 400 books on the subject, which you will promptly ignore?
But don't tell me "do your research" for your side of the debate.
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My POINT is its HARDLY noticable...
"Go and see what language all documents written in a region stretching from Cairo to Kabul were written in for 800 years"...
The GOAT farmer still tends GOATS in Kabul, and he's not reading Greek mythology.
Neither are pretty much everyone in GREECE.
The Greeks are too busy raising their goats.
In Washington D.C, where GREEK and ROMANS did make a huge influence,
u NOTICE the PRESENCE.
We were founded by Macedonian warriors?
Dang, and here I thought we were founded by British and German dissidents.
As for as direct influence... crumbling greek columns amongst goat herding Afghanis... is not visible influence.. I say Washington D.C., because u go there u SEE the Greek influence, YOU SEE IT. You don't SEE it in Afghanistan or India, the influence is subtle at best.
That's because in Afghanistan, everything has been blown up!
Again, I'm having a problem with you guys not proving your case (sloppy debaters) more than saying there is no case to be made from your side.
Well, see, we use this thing called Grammar.
but yet VISIBLE meaning noticable.
I'm saying from Iran to India... YOU DON'T NOTICE THAT ALEXANDER WAS EVER THERE...
We noticed that Twins Towers has been missing from NYC since 2001.
We don't NOTICE ALEXANDER in the streets of Punjab.
Eli, Eli, lama...
Please, tell me that you're joking: you're seriously comparing a 4-year span, with a 2,300-year span????
What does ALEXANDER mean to the goat farmer in Kabul today?
NOTHING.
Have you
asked the goat farmer?
Pah! I deride this argument that a legacy must be known to people to be a legacy! Pshaw, sir! FPRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT="
By that logic every single person in society would have to know that many common Western legal precepts are descended from the Roman Empire.
That many people would say, "Huh?" doesn't make the legacy non-existent!
I agree most whole-heartedly!
After all, how many people these days know that the walls of Jericho are over 7,000 years old? (one source said 10,000). Yet nobody would say "pah, Jericho doesn't matter".