Quote Originally Posted by Sakkura
I don't know, in my lessons Alexander was mainly introduced as the guy who set up Hellenism, which was explained as a big thing. And then the Romans became the next big thing.

But hey, I'm not from the US so maybe that's the reason.

It's explained that way in AP world history class that I'm taking now in HighSchool in the USA, but then again we're AP world history and we've gone from precivilization to the Song and Tang Dyansties/European Fuedalism in about 3 months, so there's not as much detail about each specific time period as I would like.