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he wanted to establish cities throughout his empire
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that would be actually Greek cities, and he wanted to
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have the elite people all be able, at least, to speak Greek.
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You have therefore one world,
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and in fact this whole dream of Alexander --
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and it was a very self-conscious, propaganda campaign
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and a cultural campaign on Alexander's part.
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He wanted to make one world.
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You really have, therefore, for in some way the first time in history,
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a dream of making all of his empire basically universal,
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a dream of a universal vision, for one world,
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under one kind of culture, one kind of language.