HISTORY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Rosetta Stone, Chauvinism, Koinon
27 Oct 2017
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These successor kings just took over (and intensified the amount of product extracted) Death of alexander in 323, at babylon, aged 32. By 275: ptolemaic egypt (ptolemy i), seleucid asia (seleucus i) and antigonid. Macedon"s- ruled in egypt and asia (cid:523)took over alexander"s fleet(cid:524) Abandonment by successors of alexander"s experiments in cultural hybridization, The relation of how politics is formed around the economy. Extraction of product of indigenous peasantry (lower class) in favour of colonial rule. Dependence on and use by the kings of greek soldiers and colonists. Greek culture as the exclusive possession of colonial rules. They were going to (cid:498)civilize(cid:499) the indigenous population, but not really, (cid:498)colonize(cid:499) instead. Hated by the other indigenous peoples because they were becoming greek and forgetting their roots. Tension is easily seen in seleucid israel: hellenised jews and traditionalise. 168-167: antiochus iv bans jewish sacrifices, circumcision, sabbaths, feasts. They ruled in israel the way god wanted it to be.
