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Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age: A Short History [Repost]

Posted By: thingska
Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age: A Short History [Repost]

Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic Age: A Short History by Peter Green
English | Jan. 8, 2008 | ISBN: 0753824132, 0297852949 | 269 Pages | PDF | 9.5 MB

The book begins with the personality and achievements of alexander the great, and continues with the military and political violence of the successor-kingdoms that fought over his inheritancethis era saw many important developments: a shift from the oral to the written; a move from the public to the private and a new individualist ethos; a huge growth in slavery, and therefore a glut of slave-labour which destroyed the incentive to innovate; a growing gap between rich and poor; a growing taste for luxury