4/8/19

Over the weekend I did the 4th section which is pages 142-145 which is Alexander's Empire. Today in class we had a sub and we were supposed to 146-149 and answer questions 1,3,4, and 5 so that's what I'm going to do this class. This was the shortest section that we had to read and probably the least important. But you never know what type of questions Mr. Schick will sneak onto the test because half of the questions I get wrong are the questions about the little things.

1. Hellenistic- relating to the civilization, language, art, science, and literature of the Greek world from the reign of Alexander the Great to the late second century
    Alexandria- an Egyptian city that became the foremost center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization
    Euclid- a highly regarded Mathematician who taught in Alexandria
    Archimedes- an important Hellenistic scientist who studied at Alexandria. He accurately estimated the value of pi
    Colossus of Rhodes- an enormous Hellenistic statue that formerly stood near the harbor of Rhodes

3. It made it so that it became and international community so it had a rich mixture of customs and traditions.

4. The astronomers, Eratosthenes and Aristarchus, used his geometry text that we still use today.

5. They both promote having social unity.