Monday, May 18, 2009

Egypt



Alexander conquered Persia’s naval ports, after he did that he fled to Egypt for about 6 months. Even though his beliefs were different than those of Egypt’s, he had no problem with worshiping the Egyptian gods. Alexander went to a lot of lectures presented by an Egyptian philosopher called Psammon. The historical significance was that for some reason, Alexander brought some Greek education to the Egyptians. Another very important thing to keep in mind is that whenever Alexander would conquer a country he would name it after his name, the country would later on change it back but Alexandria in Egypt remained the same.

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