Social Sciences and History / Unit 3 SSH 0216 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Alexander and the Hellenistic Kingdoms
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The idea
Philip of Macedon conquered Greece; his son Alexander conquered Persia in twelve years, married his officers to Persian nobles, and died without an heir. By two eighty BCE three kingdoms stood: Antigonid, Ptolemaic, Seleucid.
In practice
Alexandria in Egypt, largest of the new Greek cities.
Where people slip
Greek culture spread across the Middle East only now. Rome was rising in the same decades.
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