Ptolemaic Egypt
Seleucid Kingdom
Antigonid Macedonia
Persian Empire
Roman Greece: A Guessing Game
100
The population of Egypt had always featured many non-Egyptian peoples, such as Greeks serving in this type of work under the Egyptian pharaohs.
mercenaries
100
One strategy of control over the Seleucid Kingdom was the foundation of many of these in strategic areas. Examples include Seleucia-on-the-Tigris and Antioch.
ciy-states
100
Demetrius, treated as a god, lived in this Athenian building during the winters of 307 and 306.
the Parthenon / temple of Athena
100
The Achaemenid Persian kings often used this title to describe themselves and their kingship.
Great King, or King of Kings
100
This city is the capital of the Roman Republic.
Rome
200
Naucratis is a rare example in Egypt of this type of Greek settlement, rare in Egypt because it was already home of a large kingdom, but more common in Italy, Sicily, and in the Black Sea.
colony
200
The Seleucid Kingdom was the biggest Hellenistic kingdom, stretching from Iran to Syria, but it started out as the satrapy of this region of the Persian Empire.
Babylonia
200
One way that the Antigonids (and other Hellenistic kings sometimes) tried to win support from the Greeks was by promising them this. Demetrius even re-founded the League of Corinth for this purpose, with himself and his father Antigonus as the hegemons.
Greek freedom / autonomy
200
This king of Persia shows himself to his Egyptian subjects with an Egyptian-style statue, but wearing Persian royal clothes.
Darius I
200
This language was spoken by the Romans.
Latin
300
Anachoresis translates to "withdrawal" or "going up" to another location, and refers to a kind of strike or walkout by this large segment of the Egyptian population.
farmers / agricultural workers
300
Seleucus was a popular throne name for Seleucid kings; another popular throne name was that of this son of Seleucus who ruled after him.
Antiochus
300
After losing the Battle of Ipsus in 301, Demetrius lost his territorial kingdom but still maintained authority in this military body. He would later use it to attack mainland Greece and Macedonia.
a fleet of ships in the Aegean Sea
300
The historian Herodotus claims that Cambyses killed this creature (shown in this statue), but Cambyses himself claimed to have respected it and given it a proper burial.
the sacred Apis bull
300
The Macedonian Wars were fought between the Romans and this Hellenistic dynasty.
the Antigonids
400
Replaced by the newly founded Alexandria after Alexander's conquests, this ancient Egyptian city had served as the capital of Egypt beforehand.
Memphis
400
The Iranian region of the Seleucid Kingdom supplied this important part of the Seleucid army; Seleucus I and Lysimachus brought 400 of them to the Battle of Ipsus in 301.
war elephants
400
Antigonus II Gonatas focused on rebuilding the Macedonian military as well as promoting this royal institution through patronage of intellectuals and artists.
royal court of Macedon
400
The Persians adopted some of the institutions and cultural practices of this previous empire, since they ruled over some of the same lands, but often the Persians avoided the violent imagery of conquest favored by that previous empire's kings.
Neo-Assyrian Empire
400
The Romans attacked Macedonia after King Philip V of Macedon made an alliance with this Roman enemy, led by Hannibal at the time.
Carthage
500
By wearing this traditional pharaonic crown, Ptolemy VI symbolically claims (like the Egyptian pharaohs) to be the uniter of these two traditional divisions/regions of Egypt.
Upper and Lower Egypt
500
The Babyloniaca ("Babylonian Stuff" or "Babylonian History") of Berossus may represent a local reaction against this calendar introduced by the Seleucids, which ignores previous history in the region.
the Seleucid Era
500
These two Hellenistic leagues of Greek city-states did their best to maintain independence from the Antigonid kings of Macedonia. (See if you can name one of them!)
Achaean League and Aetolian League
500
This image shows an example of this gesture of obeisance and respect shown to Persian kings and (controversially) to Alexander. (What is it called in Greek?)
proskynesis
500
The destruction of Corinth in 146 marked the end of meaningful resistance by Greeks and Macedonians to this conquering people.
the Romans