By Simba Jama

AROUND 400BC the Greek society was a highly corrupt society.
It was a sinful nation which was promiscuous and practised homosexuality, witchcraft and paganism.
The elderly and women were treated lowly while the young male was highly regarded.
It was a warlike society that put a lot of respect on the military profession.
In this two-part series we will look at the story of one such Greek warrior named Alexander, who would eventually be called, ‘the great’.
Before we go deeper into the story, it is important to first point a few things out.
In the time of Alexander, the Greeks were known as Macedonians.
The Persian Empire had its headquarters in Babylon.
Persia is modern day Iran and Babylon was in Assyria which encompasses present day Iraq and Syria.
All the nations (including Greece, Judea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Arabia and India) totalling 127 provinces were under the King of Persia.
However, the kings of the subordinate nations were kept as princes of their own lands.
Alexander was born around 355 BC in Greece to a mother who was a sorceress. His father was the king of Greece and, therefore, a prince of Persia, and was called Phillip.
However, King Philip was only Alexander’s father because he had married his mother.
Alexander was not King Philip’s biological son.
The mother used to always remind her son Alexander that Philip was not his father. “You are not from Philip, he is course skinned, but you are fine,” she would say.
Alexander’s biological father was a black man from Egypt and was said to be of royal blood.
According to Ethiopian and Egyptian sources, he was a king who fled to Greece from Egypt and was of the last real royal blood of the original Egyptian kings.
His mother claimed it was this man who had fathered him and thus Alexander was of mixed race and can be likened to the likes of Obama.
In fact, one will eventually find many similarities between Alexander’s ancient conquests and Obama’s modern conquests.
In Greek society blacks were not complete strangers.
Some were relatives, slaves, and also renowned fighters in their armies.
At the time Alexander was growing up, his father Philip was riling up Greece for war against Persia.
The Greeks were not happy about King Philip’s son because he was not a full blooded Greek and would usually referred to him as a bastard.
King Philip then got a younger Greek wife and had a son of his own.
Alexander’s mother then tormented Alexander with schemes of winning Philips’ inheritance of kingship for she believed Alexander was destined to conquer the known world.
It was his mother who planted and cultivated that seed of ambition for world domination in Alexander from youth.
Before Philip invaded Persia, he was assassinated.
Alexander loved Philip despite their biological differences.
While inquiring on who had organised the assassination, he noticed that his mother was inappropriately calm and before he knew it, Philip’s crown had been placed on his head and the youths of his generation were already calling out; ‘Alexander, King of Macedonia.’
Philip’s real son by the younger Greek wife was still a baby and thus Alexander had no direct rival to the throne.
However, he could not help but suspect that his mother had a hand in this undignified crowning and he even suspected her of plotting Philip’s death.
He eventually blamed it on the king of Persia who allegedly hired assassins with gold.
Although his mother denied having a hand in it, Alexander never stopped blaming her until his death and she is also the reason why he never returned to Greece again since the day he left for world conquest.
Alexander was crowned king of Macedonia (Greece) when he was 20 and the Greeks rebelled against him.
However, the youth were on his side as he himself was also a youth.
Eventually, however, he gained control of the kingdom but at great loss of life. There were several succession wars and among the victims were Philip’s younger wife and her infant son who were slain.
When Alexander was 21, he made his first attempt at invading Asia.
He entered western Asia with 40 000 troops and went south to Egypt.
It was in Egypt, at a place called Siwar, that Alexander was given a relatively dignified crowning.
It is said that he was found to be king of Egypt by blood and thus he had conquered his first nation.
The Persian Empire was centered in Guagamela, Babylon.
Alexander went to battle with the Persians but initially, he did not prevail.
The Greek army took a lot of deaths and injuries for they were largely outnumbered.
In nations like Greece, when one was badly injured they often practised euthanasia which is ‘mercy killing’.
Alexander was not discouraged and he eventually gained control of Persia when he was 25.
When Alexander and his men got to Babylon, which was inhabited by black Persians, they are quoted as having said, “Greeks call these people barbarians, they must have never seen Babylon.”
This is to say the Greeks found the Babylonians to be a superior culture and Alexander instantly declared Babylon his new home.
Babylon was prosperous, but was as evil in conduct as the Greeks.
The Persians had become corrupt and in Babylon there were prostitute lounges and shameful acts such as public mating.
There was paganism and the people had lost their way.
Alexander himself was gay and had a male partner from his army called Hephaistion.
Such was the immorality of the Greeks and when they merged with these Persians, Babylon became like Sodom and Gomorrah.
After invading Babylon, Alexander went to war with North East Persia for three years.
The king of Persia who managed to escape in the initial attack by Alexander was betrayed and slain by his commanders.
Regardless of his victory, Alexander kept heading east and conquered every nation he ran into.
He took the heads of the kings with him.
He reached lands previously unknown to the Greeks and he eventually reached the border between Europe and Asia.
There he founded the 10th Alexandria, the first being the formerly great library in Egypt.
In Persia, Alexander fell in love with a black woman called Rokshana who was a dancer.
The Greeks were waiting for a Greek heir and his mother had advised him to quickly marry a Greek woman so as to have a more legitimate Greek son. However, Alexander married the Persian woman and this caused tension among the Greeks.
Alexander then made clear his dream of a Euro-Asian race.
By this he meant that he wanted the Greeks to mix with the Persians (blacks) and produce a coloured race; like that of himself.
Such coloureds are in fact the people we identify today as Arabs.
He also decreed that the Persians should incorporate the Greek army and receive a full Greek education.
The Greeks were offended and this ended with the execution of some Greek officials who had unsuccessfully attempted to poison Alexander.
No occupied territory remained the same.
The army grew because the Persians had also joined their ranks.
About 150 000 marched across Hindu Kush.
Until that time, India had never been explored or conquered by the West and because of snakebites and fever from the rainy weather, thousands of the troops died.
In India, the Greeks massacred all who resisted.
However, Alexander made friends with the defeated kings and gave them land and some authority.