From the more Hellenistic perspective, analyze the transition in the Greek world from polis to cosmopolis
What will be an ideal response?
Within the Hellenic world, Greece was almost entirely focused on the polis as the center of Greeks' lives. They had not held to an idea of country, or Greece, but focused instead on the individual city-state, with the collective polei making up the Hellenic world. While the poleis did have trade and interaction with other poleis and other parts of the Western world and Near East, their sense of cultural supremacy restricted their consideration of other regions of the world as something worthy or equal. This shortsightedness was a contributing factor to the relative ease with which Philip of Macedonia was able to take over the poleis of Greece and form the League of Corinth. With Philip's death, Alexander continued the plans to create an empire that crossed into Persia, encompassing the diverse ethnic population there, as well as his other conquests all the way to the Indus Valley region. When Greece was placed in the context of being one area of the empire, and Greeks saw the achievements of different civilizations they had previously dismissed, the Greek world ceased to be the center of the universe and was put into the framework of a larger, more cosmopolitan world.
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