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🗓️ 10 May 2020
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0:00.0 | This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler |
0:14.0 | And you're listening to volume three, the classical world |
0:20.0 | episode 22 |
0:22.0 | The Hellenistic Period. Oh, In the aftermath of the age of the diadaki, three main kingdoms emerged. |
0:59.0 | Ptolemaic Egypt, which was established by Ptolemy the first Sota, a companion of Alexander the Great, |
1:10.0 | the Salucid Empire, which was established by Salucus the first Nicator, a military general |
1:18.7 | of Alexander the Great. |
1:21.8 | Then Antigonid Macedonia ruled by the descendants of Antigonus the first |
1:29.8 | Monopt Thomas satrap of Frigia, and another military general of Alexander the Great. |
1:40.8 | Previously cities such as Athens were the envy of the Greek-speaking world, but now that |
1:47.4 | Macedonia had taken control of the Greek-speaking lands and extended its |
1:52.2 | influence over such a wide area, new cities were being |
1:57.0 | built across the conquered lands. These cities were much more modern and really served to put older cities like Athens in the past. |
2:09.7 | Alexander the Great himself was an instigator of city building and his cities and those built by |
2:17.3 | his various successors or Diadukei and their successors demonstrate the spread of something called the Hellenistic culture, |
2:27.0 | which refers to the diffusion of Greek traditions and culture throughout the known world. |
2:35.1 | The word Hellenistic is derived from the word Hellas, which is the name that Greek speakers used to refer to Greek culture, which we have to be careful |
2:48.2 | about describing because Greece was not in any way a country as we know it today. |
2:57.0 | Greek culture and Hellenistic culture derives from the similarities of culture and languages that the societies of the Aegean region shared. |
3:09.0 | The greatest city that is a legacy of the spread of Hellenism has to be the city that |
3:17.8 | Alexander the Great himself founded in Egypt, the coastal city of Alexandria. |
3:25.0 | The importance of Alexandria during the Hellenistic period cannot be overstated. |
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