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  2. Hellenistic Greece - Wikipedia

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    Hellenistic Greece is the historical period of Ancient Greece following Classical Greece and between the death ... Aratus preferred distant Macedon to nearby Sparta ...

  3. Hellenistic period - Wikipedia

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    The term Hellenistic is a modern invention; the Hellenistic World not only included a huge area covering the whole of the Aegean, rather than the Classical Greece focused on the Poleis of Athens and Sparta, but also a huge time range. In artistic terms this means that there is huge variety which is often put under the heading of "Hellenistic ...

  4. Hellenization - Wikipedia

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    Hellenization [a] is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period , colonisation often led to the Hellenisation of indigenous peoples; in the Hellenistic period , many of the territories which were conquered by Alexander the Great were Hellenized.

  5. History of Sparta - Wikipedia

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    With re-Hellenization, the Slavs likely became a minority among the Greeks, although the historian J.V.A. Fine considers it is unlikely that a large number of people could have easily been transplanted into Greece in the 9th century; this suggests that many Greeks had remained in the territory and continued to speak Greek throughout the period ...

  6. Timeline of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    3 Hellenistic Greece (323–30 BC) 4 See also. ... 399 Sparta sways Persian Controlled Greek cities near Pergamon to their side and march on Egyptian Larissa and ...

  7. Sparta - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Sparta. The decisive Greek victory at Plataea put an end to the Greco-Persian War along with Persian ambitions to expand into Europe. Even though this war was won by a pan-Greek army, credit was given to Sparta, who besides providing the leading forces at Thermopylae and Plataea, had been the de facto leader of the entire Greek ...

  8. Classical Greece - Wikipedia

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    The Parthenon, in Athens, a temple to Athena. Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece, [1] marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions of Greek culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars; the ...

  9. Hellenization in the Byzantine Empire - Wikipedia

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    In the east, Greek was the dominant language, a legacy of the Hellenistic period. [9] Greek was also the language of the Christian Church and trade. [10] Most of the emperors were bilingual but had a preference for Latin in the public sphere for political reasons, a practice that first started during the Punic Wars. [11]