How Did Alexander The Great Change The Afro-Eurasian World

War, battle, death, taking over, rebuilding, invading, destruction, and conquering all represent what Alexander the Great achieved. Conquering allowed Alexander, the Great to transform the Afro-Eurasian world. Within the Afro-Eurasian world trading was an important aspect that allowed many countries and different type of people to become connected. Alexander the Great allowed many new trade pathways to become open. Alexander the Great had a large impact on life that changed the Afro-Eurasian world through cultural interaction, diffusion and left lasting effects.
Throughout the territories that Alexander the Great was able to conquer with his army led to changing the Afro-Eurasian world. In fact, this transformation started when Alexander’s

As the money-economy is spreading throughout the Mediterranean it allows for equal pay when people decide to buy or sell their goods. The start of unifying the Mediterranean world starts with having all the nations agree on using the same system. In this case, the same system is a money-based economy that will slowly abolish trading. It allows historians to easily trace back in history when the Afro-Eurasian world started to change and become more involved with one another. This quote specifically states that because four main cities were forced to implement a money-based economy that cultural ideas started to become more common. It also proves that because Alexander the Great’s military strength to force these four countries to submit. Not all of Alexander’s territories that he conquered were unified. “Many of the fragmented territories combined and introduced to Alexander’s absolute rulership. Many large territories that became combined were ruled by a single ruler.”2 Alexander was able to conquer and obtain large territories before onto the next territory he wanted to obtain. While

Far-reaching effects that became lasting throughout the rest of history. Lasting effects that are used today. The first lasting effect that caused ripples throughout the Mediterranean world and eastward to China starts with power. “The massive transfers of wealth and power resulting from his [Alexander's] conquests transformed the Mediterranean into a more unified world of economic and cultural exchange.”4 As a unified world is starting to appear communication through his conquests was developing. Communication that is allowing ideas, inventions, and culture to be shared. Inventions being improved upon that will eventually lead to the idea of expanding this unified world further. Perhaps trying to explore the lands Eastwards and China one day. Then through China perhaps explore Japan and learn about new cultures. Without his conquests starting to become unified the ideas may have stagnated within each conquest. If ideas stagnated, then new trade routes to the east would have never opened.5 If the east remains unexplored then the west and east would have remained divided from one another. If they remained divided, then who knows what our world would be like today. Many things that were invented and people use today would not exist if not for the connection between the east and west of the Mediterranean world. China and Japan could have possibly