Ancient Greece Study Guide Flashcards
What’s so important about the Alexandria in Egypt
It had the famous museum, the famous library, and the pharos
What does Hellenistic mean
Having to do with Greece
What did Euclid do
Wrote elements a book of 465 geometric proofs
What did Archimedes do
He invented a bunch of stuff
What was the Colossus of Rhodes
It was a giant sculpture over 100 feet tall that collapsed due to an earthquake
Who was zeno
The founder of stoicism.
Who was Epicurus
The founder of epicurism
Who were the three successors of Alexander the great
Ptolemy, Seleucus, antigonus
Who is Philip the second
Alexander the great’s father. The king of Macedonia
What is Macedonia
The land just to the north of Greece. It’s very rugged and the people liked call themselves Greek even though they weren’t
