Did Alexander and his successors “Hellenise” the East?

Alexander the Great was born July 356 B.C. the son of Philip king of Macedon, who reigned from 359-336 B.C. until his assassination by Pausanias. During Philips reign he made Macedonia, of which he was sole ruler, into a international power, and conquered its neighbouring territories, and eventually became the most powerful force in the whole of Greece after the battle of Chaeronea and the defeat of Thebes and Athens, Philip formed the Hellenic League which was the beginning of his plans to conquest against Persia the reason for Philips plans to conqueror Persian and Eastern lands is unclear. It could be because the land was there to be conquered or it could be because Persian and the East was always seen as the Greeks ancestral enemy.
As a young man Alexander was taught by Aristotle the ways of Philosophy, ethics and politics, this tutoring by the greatest mind of the period gave Alexander his desire in Greek Culture and the Greek way of life. Alexander was very intellectual, he was...