It provided trade routes, war routes, fish for food, the critically way to take over new land and form colonies to solve the overpopulation of mainland Greece.
The Hellenistic Age after Macedonia took over Greece and then the Persian Empire.
The Persian Empire failed by never taking over Greece.
Rome was not after trade routes, the Punic Wars were a struggle for dominance of the Western Mediterranean.
By taking over the Persian Empire, he removed its threat.
Greece did not conquer Phoenicia. Macedonian king Alexander took it over as part of his conquest of the Persian Empire in 334 BCE.
Greece was devastated, paving the way for Macedonia to take control, and use the combined resources to take over the Persian Empire.
The Nubians were not as dependant on the flooding of the Nile, so they had no need to trade by water.
The nubians were not as dependant on the flooding of the Nile, so they had no need to trade by water.
He continued his father Philip's plan to take over the Persian Empire.
The war had been over for a hundred years when he came on the scene.
Europeans began looking for new sea routes to Asia.