The Hellenistic Era - What Does This Mean?

Alexander smashes all o that greek culture is now distributed into africa, the levant, into asia, asia, minor asia proper. Right down dout out to the borders of india, you have greek kngdoms bactria integrating greek culture with buddhist philosophy and religion in what is modern day afghanistan. You're just told to leave the polus. And for many people, they would rather die or face imprisonment than be ostracized because tapolus was such an embedded existence for them,. their identity was so immeshed in it.