The Alexandrian Empire

I personally don't think a unified Hellenistic empire will affect science any more than a unified Roman empire did OTL. I'm also confused as to how Olympias could visit her son (who's dead and buried at sea).
Anywhy this is a good timeline, and makes me want to post my Alexander timeline someday.
 
I personally don't think a unified Hellenistic empire will affect science any more than a unified Roman empire did OTL. I'm also confused as to how Olympias could visit her son (who's dead and buried at sea).
Anywhy this is a good timeline, and makes me want to post my Alexander timeline someday.

The biggest difference is that the Hellenistic empire will have more contact with the east than Rome did because the Hellenistic empire won't have Parthia as an intermediary.
 
His comments along these lines were more to the effect of "What if the scientific worldview of the Greeks had survived" and didn't refer specifically to Alexander's empire. In fact, Sagan pointed out the Ionian scientific revolution was only possible because the Ionian cities were independent of the great empires.


The worldview of the Greeks did survive, for quite some time too. The problem is that everyone followed in the footsteps of the wrong Greeks. Aristotle's anti-rationalism and anti-empiricalism was a death-stroke to any form of scientific inquiry for the next thousand years.

But yeah, a large part of the intellectual flexibility of classical Greece came from the fact that there really was no 'power that be' that could enforce a certain doctrine.
 
Search for a blank map in the Media forum. take a map from OTL Alexandrian empire.

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Draw otl alexandrian empire on the map (ms paint)

Draw expansions that the empire made in your tl on the map.
 
If I knew how to make maps.
Just edit in the extra conquests on the below map in paint, and upload as an attachment.
alexandrianfx9.png
 

Anaxagoras

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You're talking to a guy who would prefer it if we still used quills and inkpots. When you say stuff like "edit in paint" I have not the foggiest notion of what you're talking about.
 
You're talking to a guy who would prefer it if we still used quills and inkpots. When you say stuff like "edit in paint" I have not the foggiest notion of what you're talking about.
Well, Right click on the image, click Save Image As... and save it on the desktop (or wherever you want it saved). Then right click on the image on the desktop and you should have an option to Edit, which will open it in MS Paint (A rather basic image editing program), or Open With which should offer the option of using MS Paint.

If you make an error in Paint, just click Edit then Undo. If you want to start over entirely, just exit the program and open the image up again, and the changes you made shouldn't appear unless you've clicked File and Save or Save as...

Of course, this is all operating on the assumption you are using some form of Windows.
 
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