1.In 334 B.C. Alexander the Great took his Greek armies to the east and in only a few years completed his creation of an empire out of much of southwest Asia In the new empire, barriers to trade and the movement of peoples were removed; markets were put in touch with one another.
公元前334年,亚力山大大帝带领希腊军队来到东方,在短短几年里,他就建立了一个包括亚洲西南大部分的帝国。在新帝国中,贸易壁垒和民族运动都不复存在,市场也互通有无。