Western Civilization I / Unit 5 WC1 0411 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Three Kingdoms by 280: Antigonid, Ptolemaic, Seleucid
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The idea
Civil war among the generals produced three kingdoms by two eighty: the Antigonids in Macedon and Greece, the weakest; the Ptolemies in Egypt, the longest lasting; the Seleucids in Mesopotamia and Persia, the richest and hardest to govern.
In practice
Weakest, longest, richest: the exam's three adjectives.
Where people slip
Rivalry between Ptolemies and Seleucids drove the period's wars. Rome ended all three.
Your place on the trail
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Unlocks
- 0412Ptolemaic Egypt: Greek Pharaohs, Egyptian Clerks, Record Harvests
- 0413The Seleucids: Too Big, Too Few Greeks, and the Silk Trade
- 0414Languages and Citizenship in a Hellenistic City
- 0422Reading a Map of Alexander's Route and the Successor Kingdoms
- 0424Polis and Hellenistic Kingdom Compared: Citizen, King, City, Language
- 0425Sequencing Macedon to Rome, 359 to 30 BCE
- 0426Alexander's Empire Without Alexander: Culture Went East, Politics Stayed Home
- 0511Rome Takes Greece: Philip V to Corinth, 146
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