>>>>Alexander The Great, had the 2nd largest empire in world history. He went all the way to India. Why didn't he attack Rome?
>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great
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>>>Because during Alexander's era Rome was a small village :-)
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>>The Roman Republic had already been created and they were a local power.
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>Rome was founded in the 8th Century BC. Alexander lived in the 4th Century BC. At the time Rome was still a backwater power. Not that important in the scheme of things, compared to the Greek, Macedonian an Persian Empires. Rome did not set to conquer far-off lands and become the Roman Empire until the Punic Wars (264 BC).
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>Alexander died young (at 33 - in 323 BC) of some illness, posibly malaria or typhoid and did not have time to acomplish all he set out to do.

Hi Alex. Thanks, that looks like the answer.