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For quick and clear transmission of thoughts and ideas, a common language was necessary. A language of clarity and simplicity must be developed. Alexander wrote the common Greek.

The first of these came out of the Greek empire of Alexander the Great: a common and unambiguous form of language. He then required the use of his new language in all public and private contracts. Hellenism is the common name for this process which continued even after Alexander’s death in 323 B.C. to a time past the destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 A.D. This resulted in “Alexander’s Greek” being the common language of the “known world.”