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Apologies.
But the man's impact on the history is immense. The hellenistic period is founded on the man's shoulders
His empire breaking apart is irrelevant, because it did not really, it was just divided by his generals instead of by his sons.
Just look what a center of culture Egypt was under Greek rule. Or how hellenistic thought imbued the biblical authors, or how it would create a cultural interaction between Europe and places as far as India. Alexander the Great is the one that merged Europe with Asia. He laid the groundworks for much that would later occur.
