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Question: Did Alexander the Great ever have plans or intentions of conquering Rome!?
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He had aspirations about taking Carthage before he died (he built up a massive fleet for that purpose, but it was destroyed in the civil wars after he died)!. Rome was not really quite powerful enough to catch his attention, but if he had gone west he doubtlessly would have had to have some interaction with Rome, which was slowly become a powerful force in Italy!.

In his history Ab Urb Condidta, the Roman historian Livy says that he thinks it likely that Alexander would have attacked Rome!. He speculates that if Alexander lived, he would have "first turned his arms against Carthage and then crossed over into Italy later in life!." But Livy thinks that the Romans would have defeated Alexander, because Alexander's luck could only hold for so long and because the Romans were superior soldiers and generals (a tad too patriotic on Livy's part!. I have little doubt that Alexander would have kicked Rome's butt, since Rome was rather primitive at the time compared to the Hellenistic East!. But we shall never know)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

There was not a Roman state at the time of Alexander the Great!. Rome was just a small unimportant town on the banks of the Tigris River in his time!. There was no reason for him to go west!. Nothing but barbarians there!. East into Persia,Egypt, and India was where the money and civilizations were!. So the answer to your question is NO!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I assume you're asking this because of that one throwaway line in Oliver Stone's mess of a biopic!.

The short answer is no, he didn't!. He would never heave heard the word "Rome", and, if he had, he wouldn't have cared!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Alexander did have aspirations to move into the Mediterranean Sea!. Rome at the time was more or less a backwoods, nowhere place, and would have no doubt fallen!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I believe Rome wasn't a power at that time!. Therefore Alexander wouldn't have gained anything by taking over a single city!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes he had plans to take over the Arabian peninsula and then the general area of Rome!. But never got to it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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He wanted to rule the entire middle east, the whole of north africa, and the entire European peninsula!. Had he not died, he might have succeeded!. The Celtic peoples of what are now western Germany, all of France, Britain and Ireland, and northern Spain, were strong and they would not have gone down without a fight, but against Alexander's Phalanx and his tactical brilliance all of Europe would have eventually fallen!.

The areas described above, where the whole known world, and some historians consider Alexander's death a tragedy because had Alexander conquered Europe, there may have been no "european colonialism," as Alexander wasn't a racist!. The whole concept of "racism" did not exist in the ancient world outside the semitic peoples of the middle east, however people still had bigoted attitudes!. Alexander himself took a Bactrian wife (Roxana), what is now modern day northeast Iraq and northwest Iran!.

Part of the reason he was so open minded is because he himself was mixed; the reason his mother Olympias had so much bad press, and why in the media she is often portrayed as a psychotic whore/witch, is because Olympias was not Greek!. She was a princess from the kingdom of Epirus, modern day Albania, which has always been historically, even in ancient times, Slavic!.

The people of Greece, were not white!. Linguistic studies showed their language to have closer afinities to middle eastern dialects, than to European ones for one, as the most primitive, I mean "proto" Greek, is closer to semitic languages than it is to any indo european ones, believe it or not!. The Helladic peoples, who drove the Dorians, Ionians, and Acheans into the mountains, were desdendants of a man named "Hellas," likely the leader of a clan, a tribe if you will, that migrated out of the middle east sometime in the year 3,000!.

Hellas had a son, also named Hellas or "Hellenes" I believe, and his other sons were Dorus, Ionus, and Acheus, each ancestor to the Dorians, Ionians, and Acheans respectively in other words the different groups of Greeks!. Being semitic myself, and of a long family line, I respect oral traditions regarding descent, so while not "oficial history" as academic snobs would have it, I do believe there was a historical ancestor to Greeks named Hellas, who had a son named Hellenes, and his other sons!.

As with all peoples who are still in the clan stage, because Greece is rocky, mountanous, and with limited resources, as the populations of each respective clan, namely the Ionians, Dorians, Acheans and Hellenes all got bigger, this led to war, in which the Hellene peoples, the descendants of Hella's oldest son, were victorious, and they established the Mycenean civilization, which Homer calls the "golden age" of Greece!.

See thought he Dorians, Ionians and Acheans were still smarting from having been thrown into the mountains of modern day Macedonia, were winters are brutal, and the Celtic and Slavic tribes to the north, even more so!. Thus, wanting revenge, after the Hellenes were weakened from fighting the Trojan war, also a likely historical event, the Dorians were the first to invade, and they made slaves of the Spartans, and established themselves as Sparta's new citizen class, while the people who burned Troy, sacked it, enslaved their children and raped their women, they turned to slaves or made Heluts!.

Karma's a b*tch what can I say!.

In fact, the Spartan's justification for treating the Helots (pronounced Helut) the way they did, was rooted in what they did to Troy!. That is like Mexico invading America, enslaving everyone and them justifying themselves saying "hey, you did it to everyone else!.!.!.!.!."

The Spartans, against the earlier more powerful Mycenean Greeks, did precisely that!.

In other words what I'm trying to say is that the Sparta of Menelaus of the Illiad, and the Sparta of Leonidas, are not the same ones!. The Dorians were initially peaceful, but repeated fights with Celts and Slavs made them warlike and bloodthirsty!. Later on, the Ionians and Acheans followed suit, and these period of the other Greek peoples invading the Greek peninsula in "revenge" so to speak against the descendants of Hellenes were called by Herodutus as the "Dark Ages!." They were indeed the dark age of ancient Greece because during this time Greece produced nothing; not Philosophy, not science, not anything!.

The Greeks, genetic studies have conclusively shown, and this is confirmed by linguistical studies of "proto" greek, the greek that predates coine, were not European, they were originally middle eastern, cousins to the semites!. Meaning, they were not white!. This is significant because it rewrites history, and it may also help so that whites stop being so full of themselves!.

See, the ancient Greeks themselves, made the distinction between the peoples "from the deeper, darker parts of Europa!.!.!." and themselves!. The ancient Greeks did not see themselves as relatives to either Celt, or Slav, and many modern Greeks still don't, although they admit to having mixed with them a lot, although, haplogroup J, is still the predominant genetic haplogroup in Greece!.

So what does this have to do with Alexander!? Because things were none to cozy with slavic peoples, there was deep, and I mean DEEP prejudice towards Alexander's blonde Slavic mother Olympias, from whom he inherited his blue eye, highly unusual, as eye color is determined by the father!. The Kingdom of Epirus, in fact, they did not speak Greek, even today Albanian is a unique language related to Slavic!. The language spoken in most of the Balkan peninsula outside of Greece is a mix of Slavic, Greek and Latin, in Albania it is a modern form of proto-slavic, likely the oldest form of Slavic on earth, while in Russia, Russian is a blend of Scandinavian languages with Slavonic tongues, with some Asiatic central steppe dialects thrown in!.

In other words Alexander was not white on his mother side, but white on his mom's side!. Its part of the reason that during his youth, people plotted to have Phillip's other son become king!. No one wanted a "half breed" leading the Doric Macedonians, who were fiercely proud of their Helladic heritage!. Phillip acquired Olympias, from having conquered the kingdom of Epirus, to seal the bargain the king gave him his beautiful daughter!.

If you have seen modern Russian women, you know Alexander's mom must have been a babe!. The great majority of Slavic women are hot; as slaves, they were the most expensive ones in markets in Greece and the rest of the mediterranean world!. There is speculation, that the reason Alexander "died" at such a relatively young age, was because he was murdered!. Again, one of Phillip's counselors, or advisors, gave him his daughter!. The man was Macedonian, of Greek origin, so likely his daughter was a "pure Greek," meaning she had dark hair, olive skin and all that!.

The purpose of this plot!? To ensure that he would have power, because of his daughter's intimate connection to the king, and to ensure that a full blooded Macedonian would ascend the throne!. Olympias however, would not have this, and to protect Alexander, she had the boy murdered!. See, because of her ancestry, and because the Slavs had attacked the Macedonians frequently, Phillip was indeed an abusive husband, and as legend has it Alexander was conceived during a rape!.

The Slavs were considered by the Greeks, as well as the Celts, to be more "beasts than men!." They criticized them for their "foul temper" for their "inability to control their sexual apetite" and for their "rampant violence" prejudices that, considering the white people I have been exposed to, I would have to agree with ancient Greek writers but moving on!.

Alexander though, turned out to be a nice kid, very much his father's son, and he stayed alive because Phillip did indeed love the boy, Alexander was a "pride and joy" son, it was one of those father son relationships were a man's whole world revolves around his son!. So, for all intents and purposes, after Phillip died, Alexander became king!. The cause of Phillip's death remains a mystery, and there is no reliable history behind it!.

We know it was not Olympias, because abusive as he was, he was her only protection from a deeply bigoted court that could not stand the sight of a "beast woman" in a high court position!. We know it was not Alexander himself because he was off fighting a war in Anatolia, modern day Turkey!.

Using Occam's razor, its possible that Phillip stepped on a pebble, got a tetanus infection and croaked!. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the easiest and best, especially when you deal with near-deified historic figures!. Thus, Alexander got his conquests going and all that!. While this is speculation of mine, its possible the reason Alexander dreamed of a world, where prejudice did not exist, obviously enough from a traumatic childhood!.

Being both prince and "half-breed," Alexander's only friend was his horse Bucephalus!. History does not reccord him ever having had childhood friends, and only when he won the respect of Phillip's generals, that is when he entered the military as a young man, did he make any real, lasting ones, his military prowess having won him respect in spite his heritage!. You combine this with the instruction of the Philosopher Aristotle, naturally Alexander was going to be a defacto "ahead of his time" "racial/ethnic egalitarianism idealist!."

There was great animosity towards both Celts and Slavs in ancient Greece, and they did not feel safe, as stated!. However a greater threat was Persia, hence the reason AlexandeWww@QuestionHome@Com