he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents and ruling over states from Egypt ...

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Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his ... who adds that the Macedonian “redrew the map of the world” by force, where his ...