The Satrapies and the new Domains of Hellenism 1

When one considers the Eastern part of Alexander’s Empire, taking its future destinies into account, one can divide it into three great regions. The first comprises the lands facing the Mediterranean, which seem to turn towards Greece—Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt. Hellenism had long been in constant relations with these countries, and especially with Asia Minor, which was connected with Greece Proper by a multitude of islands and had had its own coasts conquered by Greek civilization as early as the 9th century.