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Hellenistic Culture in Alexandria Hellenistic culture- blend of Greek, Egyptian, Persian and Indian culture trade and culturally diverse: - Alexandria became a foremost center of commerce and culture/civilization Alexandria's attractions: -alexander's coffin pharos (lighthouse) library which had 500,000 papyrus scrolls Science and Technology  Astronomy- Aristarchus- found out that the Sun is at least x300 bigger than the Earth, Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun Ptolemy- disagrees with Aristarchus, says that Earth is center of universe, this was taught for the next 14 centuries Eratosthenes- estimated the real size of the Earth, says the Earth is round Mathematics and Physics- Euclid- wrote the book on Geometry (Elements) Archimedes- estimated value of pi, explained the law of lever The Archimedes Screw- could raise water from the ground  Philosophy and Art epicureanism and stoicism: founded the school of philosophy founded the sc

Hellenistic culture- blend of Greek, Egyptian, Persian and Indian culture trade and culturally diverse: - Alexandria became a foremost center of commerce and culture/civilization Alexandria's attractions: -alexander's coffin pharos (lighthouse) library which had 500,000 papyrus scrolls Science and Technology  Astronomy- Aristarchus- found out that the Sun is at least x300 bigger than the Earth, Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun Ptolemy- disagrees with Aristarchus, says that Earth is center of universe, this was taught for the next 14 centuries Eratosthenes- estimated the real size of the Earth, says the Earth is round Mathematics and Physics- Euclid- wrote the book on Geometry (Elements) Archimedes- estimated value of pi, explained the law of lever The Archimedes Screw- could raise water from the ground 

Western Civ 3-22 Alexander’s Empire: Philip Builds Macedonia Empire ·       Philip is Alexander’s dad and king of Macedonia ·       King of Macedonia who invaded Greece and won ·       He was going to conquer Persia but he was murdered ·       Murdered at his daughter’s wedding Alexander Names Himself King ·       20 years old ·       Defeats Persia ·       tutored by the greatest mind of their time; Aristotle ·       relied on the Iliad ·       Alexander vs. Darius o    Alexander was outnumbered by Darius but won anyways ·       crowed pharaoh by Egypt; 332 BC o    told him he was a god ·       army moves east to Mesopotamia o    Darius’s army outnumbered alexander again with a HUGE army o    Battle at Gaugamela o    Used Phalanx and Won again ·       Alexander continues East to Persepolis o    Burned and destroyed it Alexander’s Other Conquest ·       Now reigned as unchallenged ruler of South Asia ·       326 BC Hydaspes River, de

page 146- 149 Hellenistic Culture in Alexandria a vibrant new culture emerged blending culture of Egyptian, Persian and Indian This was Hellenistic Culture Koine was the common language  I forgot my book at school so I couldn't write the rest of my notes:) hopefully we have off tomorrow because I don't feel like going plus if we have off they're gonna give us school on the 29th and thats my birthday and my mom said I don't have to go so I would get two days off out of it. Its really late and I'm third goodnight sweet dreams.

Macedonia located just north of greece bought terrain cold climate mountain villages not city-states Macedonians looked down on by greeks were seen as uncivilized had screwed and fearless kings King Phillip army turned rugged peasants into well trained professional soldiers phalanxes 16 across 16 deep 18 foot pike fast moving cavalry Conquest of Greece Philip prepared invasion of greece 338bc Athens and Thebes joined forces to defeat Philip was too late^^ Macedonians defeated greeks ended greek independance Alexander the Great Became king declared himself king father(Philip) died a Alex's sisters wedding As king 20 years old taught by aristotle rode horsed used weapons ad commanded troops from young age 6,000 thespians killed when they rebelled

sydney jamie madison and val shared their video of the Olympics today and it was really good. it made us all laugh and I think we all really enjoyed watching it. val dog is really really cute. then we listened about mr. schicks music career it was really instresante.

toda we shared out project first of our little fake symposium and it went really well. the honey cake we made was really really good and I kinda want to make it again. the sparkling cider was amazing and so was the bread. I didn't really like the oil but some people did. our video was great and pretty funny too and nobody had any questions so we must have done a good job explaining everything. Everyone else project was rreally good too and they made interesting things.

we sent the videos to each other and made them all into one video on Imovie we had to go into the art wing to get service we saw kelsies  groups ceramic thing now we think we are going to do terrible

we worked on our projects and we decided what we were going to make and then we went to maddys that night and cooked the food and made the video

we watched the rest of the video and talked about colors. jamie brought up this weird thing about colors that actually makes a lot of sense but I don't think its true for anyone and there would be no way to prove it even if it was so I guess we will never know. It would be kinda cool and crazy if it was true and somehow we could find out but even if someone claimed it to be true we would probably just think they are lying