Western Civilization I / Unit 5 WC1 0415 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Grid Cities, Public Services, and a Widened World
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The idea
New cities rose on grid plans with forums, theaters and temples. The anchor calls Seleucid cities the first welfare state: state-funded schools, garbage collection, then free food for the poorest, for peace not charity. Red Sea posts reached Eritrea; native histories were translated into Greek.
In practice
Greeks above non-Greeks; subject priests prophesying Greek downfall.
Where people slip
The welfare-state phrase is the anchor's, attributed.
Your place on the trail
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