Essay Webquest - The Hellenistic Era

At this points you should have selected what type of project you will be working on. If you have selected to work on an Essay, this webquest will be used at home as a resource for your project. However, if you have selected the Model option, then you need to complete this webquest in class. You will have two days to work on this mini project in class.

Copy the following instructions on a Word Document and then proceed to find the answers online. Copy links or pictures on the word document, save it and then email it to Mrs. Velez: zoraida.velez@gmail.com

1. Using resources online, find the definition of Hellenistic or Hellenic.

2. Read the following link and then explain whether or not the changed horizons of the Greek world altered the way that people saw their relationship with the divine, or whether what appears perhaps most strikingly new (the use of cults to honour living people) can be linked primarily or solely to behaviours that were already current withing the pre-existing polis structure. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/read.html

3.Use the information found on this link to explain the Family structure during the Hellenistic Era. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/readings/family_structures.pdf

4. Finally, read the following essay and explain how architecture was used as a medium of public relations among Alexander's successors. http://www.utexas.edu/courses/citylife/readings/architecture.pdf