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MATT575 - Alexander Was Great but Not Good

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Are You Good or Not?

After jesus, alexander is the biggest deal in all human history. Alexander was more than willing to use all kinds of force to advance what i think we'd have to agree is a pretty gingoistic, culturally superior notion of how he thought that things ought to be. But unlike the persians, who thought it savvy to give people a little longer leash, especially in their earlier days under cyrus and their founders, the greeks quickly went to a much shorter leash. We have historical documentation of jews feeling so much cultural pressure and succumbing to the cultural pressure so much under the greek occupied version of jerusalem, that they invented some kind of like reverse

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