After Alexander, Greek rulers face a manpower problem and govern by founding Greek cities, settling veterans, inviting Greeks, and recruiting Persian bureaucrats and Jews.
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After Alexander, Greek rulers face a manpower problem and govern by founding Greek cities, settling veterans, inviting Greeks, and recruiting Persian bureaucrats and Jews.
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"...many Greeks so what they will do is they will build Greek cities to settle their veterans and invite more Greeks to come help..."
"...okay uh this is um the Greek world so they're building Greek cities all around um the world and these cities are very similar..."
"okay an example is the Greek city states it's really the height of human civilization they gave us homer plato for cities uh sophocles..."
"unifier of the greek city states and in fact what happened was that athens did become an empire but then the other the other..."
"...divided into warring city states okay very similar situation to the greek city states and the chinese city states then what's happening is the..."
"...what happened with the chinese warring states as well as the greek city states and you would assume that one of these city states..."
"...is important because in this time, most of these cities are Greek cities. Greek cities have a place called gymnasium where men go to..."
"...tribute to Athens okay so all that's happened is before these Greek city -states had"
"...And only then, but even then, only a few of the Greek city -states came together and some even joined the Persians. Okay? So..."
"...capital in Alexandria. Called Alexandria. Okay? So this was mainly a Greek city. It was a new Greek city. Founded by Alexander. And this..."
"...what the Persians wanted. Okay? That's what that's what the other Greek cities wanted to happen to Athens. The Spartans didn't do anything to..."
"...as like this, okay? So we will also be studying the Greek city -states. In fact, we will spend a"
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