1.   His conquests transformed the ancient world and ushered in the Hellenistic age of great monarchies.

2.   In the ancient world, literate societies recorded their own history in written documents.

3.   In the ancient world, the belief was that each person was represented by a star.

4.   In the Hellenistic and Roman periods mystery religions and cults spread through the ancient world.

5.   It was also the most expensive and sought-after perfume in the whole of the ancient world.

6.   It was not until the Ptolemaic period that its price fell to that obtaining elsewhere in the ancient world.

7.   So important were the Olympic games in the ancient world that the calendar was set by them.

8.   So many relics of the ancient world.

9.   The law of the survival of the fitted governed not only primitive tribes, but the civilized cultures of the ancient world.

10.   The most important colour-technology in the ancient world was the manufacture of purple dye from the murex, or whelk.