Hellenization was the moving [of] the world in the direction of Graeco-Roman culture and of Greek practices in particular. Influences of such figures as Plato and Socrates and other great Greek philosophers formed the way in which politics was pursued and also influenced the way in which cultures were structured. And Alexander left this imprint and passed it on, and even though when he died his kingdom was divided, the influence of the pressure of hellenization remained across the extant world of