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After Alexander's early death, his generals divided his empire amongst themselves and formed their own kingdoms, where they established a veneer of Greek culture. These kingdoms fought each other, and eventually settled down to Egypt, Syria, Macedonia and Pergamum. We today call them Hellenistic (the Greeks called and still themselves Hellenes; and Hellenistic means 'like Greeks - the kingdoms were never fully Hellenised, the ruling class were, but the indigenes went on with their own cultures.

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