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From The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
… as the lingua franca in the Levant, and the scribes of Damascus maintained their records in Greek. But it was not the Greeks who spread Greek around the Mediterranean –Alexander (himself not Greek but Macedonian and spoke Greek as second language, don’t discuss this with a Greek as it infuriates them) did not lead to an immediate deep cultural Hellenization. It was the Romans who accelerated the spr…