American Reacts Why didn't Alexander the Great conquer Rome?

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[hilarymiseroy]

Rome was insignificant at the time of Alexander.

[NoName-szlu]

This was still the time where middle east and indian subcontinent were pretty much the cradle of civilization.

[Onezy]

Funny to think that, while Alexander was off conquering Persia, Rome had just undergone a new phase in their expansion that would culminate in the complete conquest of Italy.

In other words, just Alexander was creating his empire, the Romans were beginning to create the springboard to tear that empire apart.

[PallThormodMorrisson]

Rome was just a modest city state at the time, whereas the Persian Empire was huge and wealthy.

[thomassharmer]

And don't forget that Egypt had been a focus of power and wealth in the ancient world for several millennia by that time, which is why it attracted Alexander's attention. The rulers of Egypt for the next few centuries were Greek/Macedonian until the Romans eventually conquered it and annexed it to their new empire.

[stathispap]

Because at that time Greece was an advanced civilization and Rome was a "what is that" thing

[danielferguson]

Rome was not a great problem for the Greek world at the time of Alexander. He had the greater problem of the Persian Empire to deal with.
The Persians had invaded Greece previously & might have done so again. The Romans & Greeks had not interacted much in Italy yet. It was in the 3rd century BC that involvement by the Romans in Sicily brought them into contest with the Greeks, so not until more than a century after Alexander's death. Rome, after conquering the Greek world, spent most of it's time as an Imperial power fighting Persian/Parthian expansion. This rivalry continued until both sides were overtaken by the Muslims in the 7th century AD.

[crimist]

Another Reaction Video turned disaster, your question again answered by the video... as always 😂

[samrevlej]

Why would you assume he wanted to make Greece (including Macedon) the center of his empire? Persia was more wealthy, more centralized and more developed than Greece at this point. His generals resented that he was stepping away from Greek culture, but it was logical. Greece weighed much less demographically and economically.
Continuing eastward was logical to a point: he wasn't going to leave the Achaemenids (Persian ruling dynasty) with half their empire now. Yes, it did lead to overextension, but that's hindsight talking.

[markmuller]

Rome interacted with a general relative of Alexander (decades after Alexander death) during the struggle for the Greek colonies in Italy and Sicily

[markmuller]

Middle East, Egypt, northern India and maybe China. These were the power houses of civilization of the time

[Janie_Morrison]

You're right it does make sense the baby's cradle

[brigidsingleton]

The main truth of the matter is, Connor, that _you_ are _not_ Alexander, and _your viewpoint _now_ is _different_ to Alexander's _then_ and therefore _your_ ideas dont count...! (Sorry) It's _no good_ putting forward ideas and suppositions etc, with your _current_ thinking, as you have hindsight (as you said yourself) and twentieth / twentyfirst century thinking and learning to back you up.
Alexander didn't.
Glad you figured it out by the end. 👍🇺🇲🤭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💜🇬🇧🙂🖖