The Empire of Alexander the Great: Conquest, Ideals and His Legacy (third part) Despite its ideals, motives or views on himself,
a fact is obvious: Alejandro indeed created a new era, the Hellenistic period. III Hellenistic term comes from a Greek word meaning "to imitate the Greeks. Thus, this description is appropriate to describe an era that witnessed the spread of Greek language and ideas in the Greek world of the ancient Near East. The destruction of the Persian monarchy at the hands of Alexander extended the Greek-Macedonian government over an extensive area. Created opportunities for engineers, intellectuals, merchants, soldiers and administrators Greeks. While the Greek mainland remained committed to the ideals of the city-states, those who followed Alexander and his successors engaged in a new political unity based on the principle of monarchy. Alexander had turned his army to be a force in Macedonia to become an international force, which had sworn allegiance to him exclusively. After his death, his successors made use of force to establish military monarchies that dominated the Hellenistic world. Autocratic power-based military force and in the claims of a divine government came to become a common feature of these Hellenistic monarchies and was part of a political legacy that Alexander gave the Hellenistic world. His vision of empire was undoubtedly inspired the Romans, of course, profit from real inheritors of the legacy tic Alexander. However, Alexander also left a cultural legacy. As a result of his conquests, architecture, literature, language and Greek-art spread across the Middle East. The urban centers of the Hellenistic period, many of which were founded by Alexander and his successors, became the driving forces behind the spread of Greek culture. Alexander founded a number of cities and military settlements, called Alexandria, to protect strategic points to monitor wide areas. Most settlers were Greek mercenaries. It is estimated that in the course of his campaigns, Alexander recruited from sixty thousand and one-sixty-five thousand additional mercenaries from Greece, of which at least thirty and six were settled in military garrisons and in new cities. While the Greeks spread their culture to the east, they themselves were inevitably influenced by Eastern practices. Thus, the legacy of Alexander included one of the basic features of the Hellenistic world: the clash of the fusion of cultures. In his campaigns in India, Alexander fought many tough battles: The Battle of the River Hydaspes was a strong opponent in the person of the Indian king Poro Poro after beating Alexander treated him with respect, according to Arian, the former biographer Alexander. Poro in action proved a man, not only as a commander, but as a soldier more real value. When he saw the cavalry dispersed the majority of their dead soldiers and their elephants killed or wandering aimlessly and bewildered by what was happening on the battlefield, his behavior was very different from the Persian King Darius: unlike Darius, he led the fight to save their skins, but as soon as they could muster a single-unit of his men fought bravely. It was only wounded him who turned to the elephant that was assembled and began the withdrawal ... Alexander, anxious to save the life of this brave and great soldier, sent an Indian named Meroes, a man who they said had been a friend of Poro for long. Poro Meroes heard the message, the elephant stopped and dismounted, he was very distressed by thirst, so that when revived after drinking, told Meroes quickly take him to Alexander. Be informed of his arrival, he rode to meet him ... When they met, he checked his horse and watched his opponent to admiringly represented the magnificent figure of a man with more than two feet tall and of great personal beauty, his demeanor had lost none of his pride, his air was that of a brave man meets another, a king in the presence of another, with whom he had fought honorably for his reino.Alejandro was the first to speak. "Well," he said, "want to do with you?" Treat me like a king is said to have been ",... he answered Poro. "For my part," Alexander said, pleased by the response, "your request be granted. "But there is something you want for you?" "Everything," said Poro, "is contained in this final request" The dignity of these words Alexander gave even more pleasure, and returned to Poro sovereignty over its subjects by adding their another kingdom even larger territory. So, in fact, tried to brave it as a king, and thereafter found him in every way, a loyal friend.