Hellenistic period

Period of eastern Mediterranean history from 323 to 30 BC

In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek, Eastern Mediterranean and Middle Eastern history following Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, in which all these regions were under the influence of Greek leadership, culture, and language as a result of Alexander's conquests. After the military campaigns of Alexander the Great, the subsequent conquest of the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BC, its disintegration shortly thereafter in the Partition of Babylon and subsequent Wars of the Diadochi, Greek kingdoms were established throughout West Asia (Seleucid Empire, Kingdom of Pergamon), Northeast Africa (Ptolemaic Kingdom) and South Asia (Greco–Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdom). This resulted in an influx of Greek colonists and the export of Greek culture and language to these new realms, a breadth spanning as far as modern-day India.

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