The combination of Greek and Persian art and culture and what happened once Alexander the Great was dead.

1. Greece + Persia = Hellenistic
Or: the impact of Alexander the
Great’s expedition

2. The Route of Alexander

3. Greek

5. Persia

7. Hellenistic

8. Greek Cultural Contributions
●Public dramatic
performances
●Historians and
Political Scientists
●Concept of political
freedom
●Logic, geometry,
●Democracy, tyranny
●Collective Security
●architecture

9. Persian Contributions
●Agriculture produce
and techniques
●Metallurgy
●Spices
●Coinage
●governance
Map of the Empire

10. Empire Break Up

11. The generals are not nice men
●Ptolemy steals Alexander’s body and
runs to Egypt. Alexander’s body
disappears…
●Antigonus heads back to Macedonia and
kills Alexander’s mother and half brother
●Seleucus kills Roxanne and her newborn
son (Alexander’s? Maybe…) and stays in
Persia

12. Hellenistic World
●Greeks become “Greeks” and spread,
but are absorbed by Rome
●Philosophy grows: Skeptics, Epicureans
and Stoics, oh my!
●Astronomy, Engineering; Archimedes
and Euclid do their thing with new math
●Persia becomes a crossroads for trade,
but plays second fiddle to Rome and
China