seleucid

Between the years 150 and 100 BC, the Seleucid tetradrachm went from 95% silver to 65%.

Their use by the Seleucid king Antiochus III at the Battle of Magnesia in 190 BC, can serve as an example.

And the Greeks were actually 3 powers (Macedonia proper, the Seleucid empire, and Ptolemaic Egypt).

During the Hellenistic era, the Seleucid Empire, a Hellenistic kingdom, ruled most of modern-day Turkey.

I have the Kindle version of The Seleucid Royal Economy which for obvious reasons includes Greek text.

And the elephants were explicitly linked to three war-elephant using states absorbed by the Roman Empire, Carthage, Ptolemaic Egypt and the Seleucid Empire.

They are thought to be more than 2,300 years old, likely from the Hellenistic period, when Iraq was under the rule of the Seleucid empire.

So did tensions between Judeans and their Hellenistic rulers, including the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt and the leaders of the Seleucid Empire based in today’s Iraq.

Mesopotamia and Persia were initially ruled by the Seleucid Empire.

Here's a description of the bronze currency of Seleucid Persia: > coin weights were not controlled to nearly the same extent as for gold and silver.

It didn’t work out well for Alexander’s own empire, but the Hellenistic kingdoms it spawned survived for much longer - the Seleucid Empire endured for almost 250 years.

This is a tangent, but I find it pretty interesting that there was really no alternative to fiat value for the Seleucid bronze coins.

"Hellenizing" better describes the Seleucid influence, which lead to the Maccabean revolt, that not only led Jews to adopt Greek cultural practices and customs at odds with Jewish worship, but even to worshipping the pagan gods.

The conquests you bring up were a thousand years ago, two thousand in the case of the Roman-Seleucid war.