actively promoted contact between his soldiers and the conquered peoples. He himself married a foreign princess, and he encouraged his troops to wed foreign women. Persians became leaders in his army, bodyguards, and members of his court. He even roused the resentment of some of his subordinates by taking on the trappings of the Persian emperor. After Alexander’s time, local areas sometimes accepted, sometimes resisted Greek influence. When the local peoples accepted Greek ways, these were always