Farmers struggled with low prices all through the 1920s, but after 1929 things began to be hard for city workers as well.
There were quite a few reasons. Allthough Alexander the Great already conquered was amounts of territory in Asia minor and Egypt, well outside the borders of Greece, there were always more riches to be found in different nations, together with bigger glory. As he was a general and a war-hero, it was important for him to obtain as much land as possible.
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