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Why do people say this when the Greeks knew India existed but it wasn't conquered, knew the nubians existed but they weren't conquered, and had to have known of some eastern people called the chinese just by going to India.
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>>16890660
He conquered the world that mattered at the time.
no hindoo did what big Alex accomplished, no chinaman either.
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You try crossing desert or unarable it is impossible
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>>16890660
'Known world' doesn't just refer to people who they knew existed. India, Nubia etc. were more mythical rather than anything they had real, concrete knowledge on.
>>16890671
That's not true either. Ashoka Maurya and Qin Shi Huang are comparable figures.
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He conquered the Hindu Kush and the Indus River valley.

One of the most important areas on the subcontinent.
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>>16890862
Arabs did it all the time



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