A good though to have in ones mind when thinking about this topics is that you will probably be seen as someone horrible and barbaric with evil-morals by future standards.
Are you seriously this naive? Or is this your first time reading about human history?
same feeling as when people talk fondly of "the great roman empire".
I posted this question on Mastodon some time ago:
Is there any modern geopolitical issue that can't be blamed on Alexander "the great"?
Most of them? You'd have to do a degrees of Kevin Bacon thing to blame the Korean War on him.
Now, blaming everything on either the US, the British or Napoleon I could get behind
Indirectly, yes, but not far. The instability created by people fighting over the scraps of his conquests allowed the rise of the Roman empire, and people fighting over their scraps throughout the Middle Ages led to the creation of the modern empires.
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