SOSC 1731 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Antigonid Dynasty, Trans-Cultural Diffusion

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The hellenistic city around 400bc until right before christ. Cultural diffusion: process of spreading and adoption of a cultural element from its place of origin to a wider place. Alexander conquered all of persia and parts of egypt: alexander was a great conqueror and committed the lifelong dream of all greeks to take back the greek land which was originally taken by the persians. Hellenistic culture is a mixture of greek, mesopotamian/babylonian, persian, egyptian, and indus valley cultures. Alexander worked very hard to attain his control over these civilizations and keep things in control: trade was very crucial to alexander"s rule, alexander"s successor divided the kingdoms; egypt, antigonid, seleucid, and. Knowledge and learning was important aspect of these kingdoms. Rulers vide with each other to have brightest scholars continue their learning and teaching. Greek teachings continued for 3 centuries and continued to grow.

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