[Lanthir]

yorik
"I'd call being killed in battle being defeated"

um I hate to tell you this but ALexander did not die in battle nor die of wounds from battle. He died from fever.

Although he did plant monuments to himself just as did any other leadre fo his time. He did not destroy cultures insteead he attempted to assimilate them into one culture.
AS for the fall of his empire I guess it depends on how you look at things. By the reasoning that Aleandres empire fell because it was divided among his generals who formed seperate kigdoms such as the Ptolemitic Egyption Empire. Then the Mongolian empire feel after Kublai Khan when it was divided first into 4 serpeate governments.

Oh to clear up one point at the time it existed the Byzamtine Empire was still considered the Roman Empire. The practice or referign to it as Byzamtine did nto come into practice until modern times. Which is why scholars consider that the Roman empire did not fall until 1453 with the fall to the Ottoman turks of Constantinople. The term is really used to refer to the switch from Latin to Greek as the "Official" language of the Empire.