Macedonians Flashcards
Hellenic Culture
The culture of the ancient Greek city-states (Athens, Sparta, Olympia)
Hellenistic Culture
The culture created as Alexander the Great brought Greek culture to the areas he conquered and it mixed with Persian, Egyptian, Indian, and other cultures
Greco-Roman culture
Greek culture mixed with Roman culture
What did Alexander the Great want to show the people he conquered?
How to go beyond the basic needs of life as the Greeks had done –> gathering food, clothing, shelter, protection from enemies
The Great Museum at Alexandria, Egypt includes…
scholars, research, education
labs, lecture halls, zoo
library:ancient knowledge
Pythagoras
Pythagorean theorem
Euclid
geometry textbook called the elements
Eratosthenes
showed that the Earth was round and accurately calculated the circumference
Archimedes
applied principles of physics to make practical inventions (lever, pully)
Hippocrates
studying illness ans looking for cures
has a doctor oath of ethics = Hippocratic oath (protects privacy of patients)
Demosthenes
warned his fellow Athenians about King Philip II of Macedonia
The Greeks looked down on the ___
Macedonians as backward and uneducated
When Philip was young, he was___
a captive/slave in the city-state of Thebes
Philip learned to ___ Greek culture and dreamed of ____
admire, conquering Greece
338 BC
Athens and Thebes attack Macedonia before Macedonia could attack them
Philip defeats Athens and Thebes and soon conquers all of Greece
