Oil painting by Charles Le Brun called Entry of Alexander into Babylon, 1665

In this topic, you discovered factors that led to the spread of Greek culture over territory and through time. After King Philip II died, his son, Alexander the Great, continued his father's conquests of Greece and Asia, and became a primary exporter of Greek culture. The ancient Greeks made significant advances that influenced people and time periods past their own. Education was important to the Greeks, and as a result, they made contributions to the arts, architecture, literature, mathematics, and science. Even today, you see evidence of such influences.