I think Charles wants to condemn Western (whatever that means when talking about ancient Macedonia)
^^^^ CB: This "whatever Western civilization is" type comment is always very disingenuous when this topic comes up, like I made up the notion of Western Civilization , and I made up the connection between ancient Greece and Western civilization, like it's not a fundamental subject in high school/college. U help make my argument by faking as if there isn't such a thing as Western civilization, self-identified by modern Europe, which traces its own roots back to Greece and Rome, with a special place for classical studies in university which means ancient Greece and Rome only, not all the other ancients. I learned all this going to college. I didn't make it up myself. Why does European/American philosophy trace its roots only to the Greeks ?
The idea is that the concept of imperialism today has roots in the imperialism of Alexander.
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civilization en masse. He's not uptight over Genghis Khan, who ruled over the largest empire in history.
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CB: I'm not sure Khan's conquests were not a defensive reaction against other imperialisms around there.