This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Alexander the Great
-son of phillip 2, the king of macedon. Phillip 2 conquered most of greece |
-alexander establishes empire from Greece to Eqypt and up to the edge of India |
-he adopts greek culutre and spread of Hellenism thorughout his empire |
Culture & City
Hellenistic Culture |
Alexandria |
-a blend of Greek culture with eqyptian, persian, and indian influences |
-an african city |
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-center for trade and hellenistic culture |
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-city became international communty with a mix of customs and traditions |
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Ancient Library of Alexandria
-contained a coollection of 500,000 papyrus scrolls and masterpeices of ancient literature |
-was the first true research library in the world |
-scholars produced commentaries on ancient worlds of literature |
School
Science & technology |
Math & Physics |
Philosphy |
-astronomy:aristarchus estimated that the sun was 300 times bigger than the earth and that the sun was center of universe |
-Euclid: opened school for geometry in Alexandria |
-Stoicism believed that there was a divine power that controlled the universe; everyone should live in harmony with natural laws |
-nobody accepted his theory and thought earth was center was universe |
-Archimedes accuratley estimated the value of pi |
-Epicureanism taught that universe was made of atoms and ruled by Gods who didnt care about humans |
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