The term Hellenization is used to describe a process in which the ancient Greek Empire began an expansion, which took place during the so-called Hellenistic era, a period that begins with the Empire of Alexander of Macedon. This term can also define the expansion into other territories of the Greek language. The product of this process was a mixture of various characteristics of different cultures with elements of the Hellenic culture, some of the cultures that contributed to the Hellenization were the Persian culture, the Egyptian empire, the Jews, among others.
Thanks to the conquests made by Alexander the Great to the Persian Empire, he managed to liberate the cities located in Asia Minor belonging to the Greek Empire and then established the foundation of Alexandria in Egypt that would eventually be established as the capital of the same, in addition to it, the Greeks managed to conquer new areas which would end up becoming colonies, in which the cultural, artistic, philosophical, economic and political models of the Greek empire would end up being imposed.
After the death of Alexander, the process of Hellenization did not stop, since many colonies in the Middle East underwent these changes, peoples of different characteristics such as Jews, Egyptians, Persians, Armenians, among others were some of which suffered the changes brought about by the Greek empire. Despite its scope, Hellenization presented several limitations, one of them was that in the regions of Syria where some characteristics of Greek culture were acquired, they were only limited to the urban centers established by the Seleucid empire., who was the successor to the empire of Alexander of Macedonia, since it was only in those places where the Greek language prevailed and the rest of the areas were very little affected by the changes imposed by the Greeks.
Another use to which the term Hellenization applies is the process that transformed the Eastern Roman Empire into a center for culture and politics where the Greek language was dominant, a transformation that took place after the foundation of the city of Constantinople, at that time the use of Latin in those areas was of primary use for legal texts.
