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Romans, and Greeks especially under Alexander, changed their lifestyles significantly to accommodate influence from subjects of their conquests. It comes with t
by cgio 11y ago
Romans, and Greeks especially under Alexander, changed their lifestyles significantly to accommodate influence from subjects of their conquests. It comes with the imperium package.
- izacus 11y agoGood job on nitpicking on a language phrase instead of answering the content of the post :/
- cgio 11y agoWhich part was not an answer to the Content of the parent?
- hetman 11y agoWhat imperium does Finland control exactly?
- inoop 11y agoSalmiakki?
- cgio 11y agoYou don't have to control. Being part is sufficient.
- ptaipale 11y agoBeing part, as in also being controlled. It's really absurd to think that Finland is somehow responsible for actions of some empire, when the history is more about the country being target of imperialism (by neighbouring Russia and Sweden).
- thaumasiotes 11y ago> Greeks especially under Alexander, changed their lifestyles significantly to accommodate influence from subjects of their conquests You mean the Greek subjects of an emperor who spent his time adventuring past the known extent of the world, with all the communications technology the world could offer 2400 years ago? The Greeks who split off from the Asian part of Alexander's empire immediately after he died in a foreign country thousands of miles away?
- cgio 11y agoPtolemies split too in Egypt but were calling themselves Greeks while having Pharaoh and religious evolution. Greeks were not known for being under a single ruler for long, yet they were keeping a common cultural identity.
- thaumasiotes 11y agoThe point I'm making is that the Greek subjects of Alexander didn't make any accommodations for the benefit of the foreigners he conquered, since all those foreigners were far away and hard to talk to. His army (and his court, the generals) had to make accommodations, and they complained quite a bit, but his subjects just sat around at home. The army had to be on location. The empire split after Alexander's death into the Macedonians proper, the Seleucids in Asia, and the Ptolemies in Egypt. The Ptolemies certainly kept a lot of cultural continuity with the Greek / Macedonian world -- so much so that the last Ptolemaic pharaoh, Cleopatra, is believed to have been the first one who was able to speak the Egyptian language (after ruling Egypt for 250 years!). They did set up syncretistic temples, which was standard practice basically everywhere in the classical period. That was an effort to get the Egyptians to accept Greek religion, not the other way around. The Ptolemies even set up a major new city for Greeks. Their accommodations to Egypt weren't particularly impressive. To the extent that the Greeks and the Macedonians had a common cultural identity, it was because the Macedonians aspired to Greek culture (it seems safe to say that the Ptolemies eventually succeeded at this). The Greeks didn't think highly of the barbarians to their north.
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- PhasmaFelis 11y agoCan you provide examples? The Romans, IIRC, were uncommonly willing to allow subjects to participate in Roman society as long as they followed the rules. This did not mean that the Romans themselves changed their own lifestyles.
- cgio 11y agoSo what would you say about Christianity? Was it a change in Roman lifestyle?