Question

Are you afraid that a few natives who may still be left will offer opposition? Come, come! These natives either surrender without a blow or are caught on the run--or leave their country undefended for your taking; and when we take it, we make a present of it to those who have joined us of their own free will and fight on our side.-Alexander the great
What could you learn about the growth of the Greek empire from the speech above?

Answer 1

Nothing. Alexander was Macedonian, and he and his men would have been enraged at the suggestion that they were forming a *Greek* empire. Indeed, Greece was the first area they conquered and subjugated to the Macedonian Empire they built.