| The old Mesopotamian cities continued, as in the preceding period, their own life under the Seleucids. |
| Although honorific epithets were commonplace for the Seleucids and Ptolemies, the nicknames of all other members of the Antigonid family were either uncertain or insulting. |
| The political division of the land into 19 or 20 small satrapies, which is found later, under the Parthians, began under the Seleucids. |
| Paul, as a native of Asia Minor, would have been familiar with the Hellenistic colony-cities of Judean mercenaries founded by the Seleucids to control the local inhabitants. |
| The Seleucids echeloned their right cavalry wing forward to gain tactical advantage. |
| Outside these old towns, the first Seleucids developed an important politics of city founding. |
