Alexаnder the Greаt creаted a new age, the era. The wоrd is derived frоm a Greek wоrd meaning “to imitate Greeks.” It is an appropriate way to describe an age that saw the extension of the Greek language and ideas to the non-Greek world of the ancient Near East. (BTW, it's the same answer for both.) Word Bank: Geography, Polis, Sparta, Pericles, Herodotus, Thucydides, Persian, Cyprus, Athens, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Philip II, Alexander the Great, Darius, Hellenistic, Gymnasium, Gaugamela, Hippocrates, Stoicism.