CLST 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tableware, Amphictyonic League, Isocrates
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According to ______ egypt was the foundation of greek religion itself; he also provided identification between greek and egyptian gods. Not only are ptolemies becoming unhinged from infighting but in 1320130 bc there is a civil war between two queens, ___ and ______ ______ obtained _______ from the maurya king chandragupta, thanks to which he was successful at battle of _______ in 301. Essay questions: sources for the study of hellenistic history, historians, inscriptions, papyri, beginnings of the kingdom of egypt, how egypt became a hellenistic kingdom alexander; ptolemy; actions. Macedon, the original monarchy of the hellenistic world. Fact that macedon is a monarchy is important to perception that other greeks had of the macedonians. Lower macedon: lower valley of rivers haliacmon and axios: probably where macedonian kingdom started. Upper macedon: uplands and upper catchment basins of same rivers: used to be several independent kingdoms that were added to macedonian kingdom later.