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Excerpt from The Historians' History of the World, Vol. 5 of 25: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise and Development of Nations as Recorded by Over Two Thousand of the Great Writers of All Ages; The Roman Republic IT might have been supposed that with the death of Alexander the political connection between the eastern and western halves of the Medi terranean, which had subsisted throughout the whole course of Greek his tory, was severed except for such occasional and superficial points Of contact as, in the nature Of things, had never been wholly lacking. As a matter Of fact, the West was left to its own devices. But it presently became evident that the development which there took place, untroubled by interference from without, was fraught with consequences Of the utmost moment to the Hellenistic political system. By abstaining from peremptory interference while such interference was yet possible, the Macedonian king doms permitted a power to arise in Italy so strong that in a very Short time it proceeded to aim a fatal blow at their own existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.