Thursday, January 3, 2008

Helleenistic Culture




Hellenistic culture started when King Phillip II conquered ancient Greece. King Phillip had a lot of power in Greece. It seemed like he was untouchable. It was until then, when King Phillip was killed by one of his own bodyguards. There is no record of why the bodyguard killed him. After the death of King Phillip II, his son Alexander the Great took over and continued to follow his father’s dream of taking over the world. He did this by taking over countries like India, Egypt, and Persia. Alexander then united the three countries and it was known as Alexander’s Empire. And that is how Hellenistic culture started.

--Alexander still holds a title record for one of the rulers who had a lot of control of land!!!!!!!


-Laron McBryde