Hellenistic+World+Decline+-+Climate+and+Geographic+Factors

Climate and Geographic Factors
 -wet and moister than previous periods (Rosen, 43) -dry desert, annual flooding of Nile in Egypt (Shipley, 192) ** Egypt -readily defensible, Nile (Adams, 38) -core territory long and narrow -fertile land around Nile -village and towns on high grounds (Shipley, 192-194)
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Macedonia -rocky, mountainous -very little furtile soil (Adams, 35-38)

Seleucid -Mountains/highlands in east cut off Arabia & Mesopotamia from India, China etc. -Very hard to control territory & far away provinces (Shipley, 272-277)

The Decline of the Hellenistic World