Hellenistic_period

After Alexander the Great's ventures in the Persian Empire, Hellenistic kingdoms were established throughout south-west Asia (Seleucid Empire, Kingdom of Pergamon), north-east Africa (Ptolemaic Kingdom) and South Asia (Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdom). This resulted in the export of Greek culture and language to these new realms through Greco-Macedonian colonization, spanning as far as modern-day Pakistan. Equally, however, these new kingdoms were influenced by the indigenous cultures, adopting local practices where beneficial, necessary, or convenient. Hellenistic culture thus represents a fusion of the Ancient Greek world with that of the Near East, Middle East, and Southwest Asia, and a departure from earlier Greek attitudes towards "barbarian" cultures. The Hellenistic period was characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization (as distinguished from that occurring in the 8th–6th centuries BC) which established Greek cities and kingdoms in Asia and Africa. Those new cities were composed of Greek colonists who came from different parts of the Greek world, and not, as before, from a specific "mother city". The main cultural centers expanded from mainland Greece to Pergamon, Rhodes, and new Greek colonies such as Seleucia, Antioch, Alexandria and Ai-Khanoum. This mixture of Greek-speakers gave birth to a common Attic-based dialect, known as Koine Greek, which became the lingua franca through the Hellenistic world.

Question: Where did Greek culture become popular?
Answer: south-west Asia (Seleucid Empire, Kingdom of Pergamon), north-east Africa (Ptolemaic Kingdom) and South Asia (Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdom)

Question: What range could primary cultural centers be located?
Answer: Greece to Pergamon, Rhodes, and new Greek colonies such as Seleucia, Antioch, Alexandria and Ai-Khanoum

Question: How susceptible was Greek culture to non-Greek practices?
Answer: these new kingdoms were influenced by the indigenous cultures

Question: After Greeks from different areas, as opposed to those from Mother Cities began colonizing, what happened to the Greek language abroad.
Answer: This mixture of Greek-speakers gave birth to a common Attic-based dialect, known as Koine Greek

Question: How did the Hellenistic period of colonization differ from earlier periods of conquest
Answer: Greek colonists who came from different parts of the Greek world, and not, as before, from a specific "mother city"

Question: When did the period of Greco-Macedonian colonization take place
Answer: After Alexander the Great's ventures in the Persian Empire

Question: Where did Greek language become popular?
Answer: south-west Asia (Seleucid Empire, Kingdom of Pergamon), north-east Africa (Ptolemaic Kingdom) and South Asia (Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Greek Kingdom)

Question: Where in Asia did greke language and culture extend?
Answer: as far as modern-day Pakistan

Question: What distinguishes Hellenistic culture?
Answer: a fusion of the Ancient Greek world with that of the Near East, Middle East, and Southwest Asia

Question: Why was there a fusion of Greek culture with those of areas the Greeks colonized.
Answer: new kingdoms were influenced by the indigenous cultures, adopting local practices where beneficial, necessary, or convenient