Alexander the Great didn't live long enough to consolidate his conquests into a true empire. However, his consistent Hellenizing - designing a series of new capital cities on the Greek model, and imposing Greek as the language of all official business - set a pattern that would be adopted by the Romans, centuries later by the colonizing European powers, and even in the 20th Century by the United States. Choose one of these imperial states, and analyze how methods invented by Alexander the Great were invaluable to their expansion into an empire, and their later administration of it.