WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The three centuries of Greek history between the death of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.E. and the rise of Augustus in Rome in 31 B.C.E. are collectively known as the Hellenistic period (1).

Detailed explanation-2: -Hellenistic age, in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 bce and the conquest of Egypt by Rome in 30 bce.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alexander’s death was sudden and his empire disintegrated into a 40-year period of war and chaos in 321 BCE. The Hellenistic world eventually settled into four stable power blocks: the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, the Seleucid Empire in the east, the Kingdom of Pergamon in Asia Minor, and Macedon.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alexander created the Hellenistic Age, a time when Greek culture mixed with the various cultures of Alexander’s Empire. This was a time of advances in learning, math, art, and architecture. Some of the great names of learning in this Age include Archimedes, Hero, and Euclid.

Detailed explanation-5: -The death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. traditionally marks the beginning of the Hellenistic period. Alexander’s generals, known as the Diadochoi, that is, “successors, ‘’ divided the many lands of his empire into kingdoms of their own.

Detailed explanation-6: -The term Hellenistic literally to ‘imitate Greeks’, and the Hellenistic period refers to the time period beginning with the life and death of Alexander the Great and ending in 323 B.C.E. and ending with Rome’s conquest of Egypt in 30 B.C.E.