What year did Alexander the Great raid Egypt? (libraries)?

Question

What year did Greece become a great civilization?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_greece
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_great

Answer 2

Here's an OK Wiki clip below.

In 332 BC–331 BC, Alexander was welcomed as a liberator in Egypt. He founded Alexandria in Egypt, which would become the prosperous capital of the Ptolemaic dynasty after his death.

There were no battles for control of Egypt, so it wasn't really raided as much as occupied. This was just before his most famous battle against Darius and the Persian empire at Gaugamela (Arbela) in 331 BC.

For a more specific date, here's a clip from a better site (cited below):

In December 332, the Macedonian army and navy reached Pelusium (modern Port Said). Here, Alexander was met by the Persian satrap Mazaces and an official named Amminapes, who surrendered the country. Mazaces may have wanted to behave a bit more heroic, but he had no troops -they had been destroyed in the battle near Issus- and knew that in the event of war, he would have to face both the invader and the native population, which had revolted very recently (in 338-336).

Answer 3

Alexander didn't raid Egypt. He was there 332-331 BC. I don't know anything connecting it with libraries, though the City he founded, Alexandria, did later have a famous one.
A civilisation doesn't get set up by a particular year.