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146 BCE - Athens conquered by the ancient Rome, move to the Roman Greece
Geography Information
- Hellensitic Period began after Alexander the Great died
- Like Roman Empire, This period was set like a Province ruling but Province was called as
Satrapy
- Ptolemy ( Egypt )
- Lysimachus ( Thrace )
- Greek civilization spread across the Middle East, and become mixed with
local cultures to produce the hybrid Hellenistic Civilization.
Fall
Brought to an end by the rising power of Rome.
:The first kingdom to fall to Rome was Macedonia, the final one was
Egypt.
Warfare
:Famously, the end of Ptolemaic Egypt came as the final act in the
republican civil war.
Hellenistic culture, however was to last much longer, and its impact can be felt
down to the present day.
Cities
- It divided into 7 satrapy(province).
Girl that come to Sparta can not be the citizen, only business man.
The king were primarily military rulers, with all other considerations of
state subordinated to the needs of their armies. These kingdoms were
autocracies, with power centralised upon the monarch and his court.
Leading cities like Athens and Sparta tried to play one big kingdom off
against another.
The smaller city-states tended to form alliances with each other, conceding
large parts of their individual sovereignty in order to ensure their joint
protection against their more powerful neighbours.
Religion
- Polytheism is mean believe in many god. They believed that god control
everything. Believed in olympus god(led by zeus). Everythings that occurred
in the future and the calamity.
- Every god have their own temple and it can have one or more temple. (ex.
Artemis Temple)
- When the old societies were powerless, the new religion were appeared.
Language
-Koine Greek-
Hoplite: Heavy infantry, who armed with 2 meter long spear and shield. They
usually stick together to make a formation call Phalanx.
Rammer : The big wooden log that use to ram the gate. Many empire used this is
breach to the stronghold
Trireme : A big warships that have a sharp head so they can ram another ship.
They also have many archer at the side of the ship, so they can fight the crews
in another ship.
Hoplite Battle ram Trireme
Art
-Hellenistic Art was focus on the human figure and it structure.
-Deities and the myths figure were still used as a concept of art.