History 290 Oakton Community College December 2008 Cosmopolis City-state of the whole world Unified by Greek language and culture Decline of Greek culture Economic problems Civil war Alexander Champion of Hellenism Homeric warrior-hero New empires Seleucid – Asia Minor, the East Antigonid – Greece and Macedonia Ptolemaic – Egypt, Palestine, Libya Few – everyone interested in the Golden Age Byzantines Papyrus Diodorus of Sicily Hieronymus of Cardia Duris of Samos Fragments, inscriptions, archaeology, literature Perdiccas – chief minister The ring Arrhidaeus Philip III Alexander IV Lysimachus Antipater d. 319 Craterus Bactria Result: League of Corinth dissolved Greece – Lamian Poleis no long allies War 323-322 but subjects of Macedon Too many Athenian democracy mercenaries An oligarchy Athens and Aetolia Antipater Cassander Cassander Antigonus the one- Allied with Antigonus, eyed Ptolemy, Lysimachus Proposed marriage Ended after 3 years Polyperchon appealed Ptolemy to Olympias Body snatcher She splits kingship Fought/defeated Battle of the queens Perdiccas Olympias – Antipater Eurydice Regent for 2 kings 317 Satrapies reassigned Eurydice and Philip III Babylon to Seleucus assassinated Died 319 Polyperchon is regent Cassander rules Macedon Roxane and Alexander IV under house arrest in Amphipolis Married Thessalonice, half-sister of Alexander Founded Thessaloniki and Cassandrea Restored Thebes Settled down Antigonus is the power in Asia His alliance with Cassander, Ptolemy, Lysimachus is unbalanced War breaks out and in 311 Antigonus allies with Ptolemy and Seleucus Cassander 311 Thessalonice Alliance Ptolemy Founded Seleucis Thessaloniki Defeated by Cassandrea Rome in 215 BCE Thebes restored Seleucus c 358- 281 Satrapy system Taxes Royal roads Post Macedonian army Coinage Antioch Pergamum Ptolemy I 367-6 – 282 King in 304 Wives Artacama in Susa Eurydice Berenice History of Alexander Nothing remains God after death Coinage Taxes Literacy Rents Irrigation Forced labor Land reclamation State monopolies Varieties of Fees wheat tolls Weak kings Ptolemy V Epiphanes Corruption 196 Inflation Crowned at Memphis End of Greek Commemorated migration Hieroglyphics Greek Revolts Demotic Egyptian Gaza Palestine Assimilation Intermarriage Bilingual Egyptian calendar Egyptian names mummification Final exam Wednesday, December 14th Bring blue books .