Practice question · Multiple choice
Alexander's conquest lasted eleven years and Hellenistic culture lasted three centuries. What carried the culture once the empire fragmented?
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- Ask what physical thing Alexander left behind that a king's death could not undo.
- The empire split into warring kingdoms. What did all of them still contain?
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B. The cities founded as Greek-speaking administrative centres
Why
Dozens of Greek-speaking cities kept functioning through every dynastic war, so the infrastructure outlasted the politics and made koine the language a merchant in Bactria and a clerk in Alexandria both used. It is why the Septuagint exists, the Jewish scriptures translated into Greek in Egypt for Greek-reading Jews.
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