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Ancient Greece Worksheet
chapter ten, pp. 198-209

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1. The term ___________ refers to the time between the death of ____________________ in 323 B.C. and _______________, the last _____________ ruler, in 30 B.C.
2. The men who founded these kingdoms were Alexander’s __________, who made themselves into __________.
3. This time period was marked by a fusion of ________ traditions with ___________ traditions in the aftermath of Alexander’s ______________. The new kings brought ___________ to live in foreign cities, which therefore spread _______ culture to the Alexandrian world.
4. After Alexander’s death, his mother, ___________, wanted to establish her _______ grandson as the Macedonian king under her __________.
5. Instead, the kingdom was divided between three of Alexander’s most powerful generals. Antigonus and Demetrius took over in _____________ and __________; Seleucus in __________ and the old ________ Empire; and Ptolemy in _______________. They sought to found a ______ line that had a chance of enduring beyond their deaths.
6. By the middle of the third century B.C. , the successor kingdoms had in practice reached a ________ of power.
7. Some smaller regional ________ also developed in the Hellenistic period.
8. All the Hellenistic kingdoms in the eastern Mediterranean region eventually fell to the __________________. The ___________ kingdom survived the longest. When Queen ______________ chose the losing side in the Roman _______ war, a Roman invasion ended her reign in 30 B.C.
9. To administer their kingdoms, Hellenistic kings initially depended for the most part on immigrant _______ and __________.
10. The most valuable qualification local men could acquire for a governmental career was the ability to read and write ________. This was the koine (or ___________) form of the language. It was the language of the New ____________.
11. _______ were the economic and social centers of the Hellenistic kingdoms. Some of these tried to increase their strength and influence by creating new federal ____________, such as the _________ League.
12. Many Greeks and Macedonians lived in new _____ founded by Alexander and his successors, but they also lived in cities that the great general _________. They had the traditional features of Greek city-states, such as ___________ and ____________. These also had traditional political institutions such as ___________ and ___________ for citizen men. The cities often had to pay ______ direct to the king; these were collected by the urban _________.
13. Kings needed to maintain the good will of the ______________ and most ________________ city dwellers. These folks provided loans to the general population in order to secure a reliable supply of ____________, subsidize ________ and ___________, and construct __________ works.
14. The _________ community in Alexandria became an influential minority.
15. In Hellenistic society, as many as ____ percent of all adult men and women had to work the land.
16. Greeks continued to __________ infants they could not or would not raise, and girls were ____________ more often than boys (as much as ____ percent). The expectation was that someone else would ________ it up, albeit as a __________.
17. In the Hellenistic world, most of the population continued to live in small _____________.
18. The wealthy in the Hellenistic world were known for their _________________.
19. The evidence of Hellenization comes from as far as _______________, where King ___________ used _________ to announce to his subjects Buddhist traditions of self-control.

Short answer

1. How were the Hellenistic kingdoms defended?











2. Discuss Hellenistic society in the eastern Mediterranean world. What classes were there?