Hellenistic Greece

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Hellenistic Greece is the historical period of Ancient Greece following Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great of Macedon and the Roman conquest of the Achaean League after the battle of Corinth in 146 BC, a crushing Roman victory in the Peloponnese that led to the destruction of Corinth and ushered in the period of Roman Greece. Hellenistic Greece's definitive end was with the Battle of Actium in 31 BC, when Octavian defeated Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony, the next year taking over Alexandria, the last independent great center of the Hellenistic world. The Hellenistic period began with the wars of the Diadochi, armed contests among the former generals of Alexander the Great to carve up his empire in Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. The wars lasted until 272 BC, witnessing the fall of both the Argead and Antipatrid dynasties of Macedonia in favor of the Antigonid dynasty. The era was also marked by successive wars between the Kingdom of...

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