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Why was the cultrue of the Hellenistic period so different from that of classical Greece?
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The Macedonians introduced an overlay of Greek culture on the peoples of disparate areas - Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Persia and, initially at least, as far as Central Asia and the Indus. Under this overlay continued the previous cultures, languages etc, and there was a progressive reversion to them, with only the aristocracies maintaining the Greek culture. Then came the Roman takeover, and it became even more muddled.
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∙ 6y agoIn the Classical Era, the Greek world was comprised of over 2,000 independent city-states stretching around the Mediterranean and Black sea littorals. In the Hellenistic era, there were several Macedonian-ruled kingdoms - Macedonia, Egypt, Syria, Pergamon and some others which appeared briefly.
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What were the three main Greek periods in history?
Bronze Age Greece: 2800 - 1100 BC Includes: Minoan Civilization on Crete (2800-1450 BC) Mycenaean Civilization on mainland Greece (1600-1100 BC) Dark Ages: 1200-800 BC Ancient Greece: 800 BC - 146 BC Includes: Archaic Greece (800-510/480 BC) Classical Greece (510-323 BC) Hellenistic Greece (323-146 BC) Followed by Roman conquest, and later under the thumb of the Byzantine Empire.
What was the Classical age of Greece?
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What ideology was first practiced in classical Greece?
Democracy had its origins in ancient Greece.
The Europe of ancient Greece and Rome is called?
Ancient Greece and Rome are known by several terms. They are called the Greco-Roman civilization, Classical civilization, Classical Antiquity, and probably other titles. Their literature is known as the Classics. The studying of them is known as Classical History.
What were the periods of Ancient Greek history?
Describe the wars of Classical and Hellenistic Greece?
The wars of classical Hellenistic Greece were very intimate. They were hand to hand, bloody and brutal. At times, there was interference by the gods.
What were the periods in ancient Greek civilization?
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And contrast Classic Greece and Hellenistic Greece?
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What were the three main Greek periods in history?
Bronze Age Greece: 2800 - 1100 BC Includes: Minoan Civilization on Crete (2800-1450 BC) Mycenaean Civilization on mainland Greece (1600-1100 BC) Dark Ages: 1200-800 BC Ancient Greece: 800 BC - 146 BC Includes: Archaic Greece (800-510/480 BC) Classical Greece (510-323 BC) Hellenistic Greece (323-146 BC) Followed by Roman conquest, and later under the thumb of the Byzantine Empire.
What kind of artwork is classical Greece?
What kind of artwork is classical greece?
What is the difference between the Hellenistic period and the classical Greece?
The Hellenic period refers to the period in which we see the rise of the Greek City-States, such as Athens and Sparta. The Hellenistic period is after the period of Philip II and his son Alexander the Great and it refers to the spreading of Greek culture. The Golf Professor
Why do we know more about classical Greece then pre classical Greece?
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What wars destroyed classical Greece?
The classical era of Greece ended after the Peloponnesean war.
What were the ideas spread during Hellenistic Greece?
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What geographical feature central to other middle eastern civilizations is missing in classical Greece?
The geographical feature absent in classical Greece was a river. This was the reason for the comparative lack of trade in classical Greece.
What are examples of classical culture?
Greece is an example of a classical culture.
What are all the countries that border ancient Greece?
Ancient Greece was bordered by the kingdoms of Paeonia and Illyria and depending on what era, Thrace.*** Macedonia and Epirus were the buffers of Greece in Europe...R. M. Cook, British archaeologist, "The Greeks until Alexander", 1962, p. 23.
