rome and greece?

Question

how come greece conquered to the east. and rome conquered to the west?

Answer 1

Who told you the Roman Empire expanded only in the west? Their goal was to take control of all the Mediterranean World.
Any way their conquests were based mainly on economic or better said commercial (sea trade) purposes. so the answer is simple:
In the time of Alexander III of Macedon (known as 'the Great', the king who laid the foundations of the Hellenistic World) all the economic potential was concentrated in the east (all the sea trade routes were linked to the Phoenician ports located on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean~Byblos, Sidon, Tyre, Acre~, region known as the Levantine Coast, and from here started the famous trade route later known as the Silk Road, a commercial highway between India and the Mediterranean World.

And the Persian control on both land and sea commerce in the east transformed the Achaemenid Empire of Persia into a global mega-power. This of course led to the envy of the other great trade hegemons, the Greek city states (this is the principal cause of the Medic Wars). Before Alexander started his campaign in Persia, the Greek cities, which controlled the majority of the greek colonies, were Athens and Thebes (the Lacedemonian power~Sparta~was at that time in collapse. And with Persia controlling the main commercial entities, the Athenians and Thebans only fought for scraps; so it was a simple task for the militarized macedonian kingdom in the north to take the power in Greece. And from the campaign of Xenophon in Persia ('the Anabasis') the greeks knew the fatal weakness of Acheamenid power~the land it controlled was so vast, that distant peoples as the Pisidians, Armenians, Carducians, and others, were constantly rebelling. Thus by the time of Alexander the Persian Empire was full of autonomous enclaves.

This is why the Greeks conquered to the east.

As for the Romans...the economic interests simply shifted from the Orient to the western, central, and eastern Mediterranean. The story is the same, only ten times longer (this is because the Romans had more adversaries to fight against: the Carthaginians, the Greek cities, the Macedonians, the Egyptians (to name the most important)...but this is for you alone to find out. So read more history!!!

Answer 2

Let's get it straight here! In those years Greece was only a few cities down by the water near Athens! The country that conquered the east was Macedonia that is why it was called The Macedon Empire! Today Greeks claim that Alexander The Great was Greek because in 1913 Macedonia was divided apart and ever since then Macedonians in Greece did not have any human rights they changed names of people,cities,villages lakes and rivers! people were not allowed to speak the macedonians language! That is why they write all kinds of propaganda! Check websites out www.historyofmacedonia.org or you can go to the Unied States official website which is www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/26759.htm go under history! I just wanted to explain it better for you that Greece never conquered the east!

Answer 3

Alexander's dream was to conquer the west after he take over Persia in the East but he died young (33 years old).

Persia was a primary target because many greek cities of the east were under persian occupation. Also Greece was attack by Persia 3 times in the past. That's why Alexander called his campaign "Panhellenic Revenge Campaign".

Greeks however expanded to the west with colonization, some centuries before Alexander.

The Romans did not conquered just the west, they took over all the countries around Mediterranean. They went further north to the "borders" with the Germanic tribes and Britain. In the East they took over Anatolia, Syria, Egypt, that's not as east as the Greeks went but it's surely East.

As about the greek and roman history After Christ we have a common case again. The Romans took their new capital, Constantinople to the East. Most citizens there were Greek. Even the official latin language changed to greek after some years.

Because of its location and historical events, the East Roman Empire kept fighting (mostly) with nations at the east.

Answer 4

Well, Greece is on the eastern edge of Europe. They were great sailors and expanded throughout the Mediterranean and Black Seas. They also colonized to the west, including Italy and North Africa. Their traditional enemies were the Persians, significantly to the east of Europe. Alexander moved east and got as far as India.
Rome, on the other hand, was more centrally located in Europe and was more concerned with the "barbarians" to the north, especially the Germanic tribes. They, too, however, expanded eastward. Constantinople (Istanbul) was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for several centuries after Rome itself fell.

Answer 5

Greece's traditional enemy lay to the East Persia etc
Romes traditional enemies lay to the frontier to the west Gaul Visigoths etc

Answer 6

cuz i think that the east romanian (greece )was helped by some armys such as egyptian army

Answer 7

has to be the great schism, when christianity divided into catholicism, and orthodox, about 400 b.c.?

Answer 8

Ask them.