Droisen's "History of Hellenism" is the first and still the only fundamental work that opened for the reader that relatively late period of ancient history (from the rise of Macedonia under Tsars Philip and Alexander to Rome's intervention in Greek affairs), about which they knew almost little before and in which they saw only a chaotic heap of wars, dynamic strife and political upheavals. Droisen managed to see the more general, world-historical significance of the era of ancient history he considered.