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10/30/12 1 Chapter 5 Sec 5 Spread of Hellenistic Culture Greek Culture had spread because of Alexander (Nile, Asia, India) Spread of Greek Culture helped middle class in Hellenistic Age Hellenistic Culture Alexandria, Egypt - (20 cities named after Alexander the Great) Trade- major city, commercial center (hub) Trade routes- cultures continue to mix

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Chapter 5 Sec 5 Spread of Hellenistic Culture

 Greek Culture had spread because of Alexander (Nile, Asia, India)

 Spread of Greek Culture helped middle class in Hellenistic Age

Hellenistic Culture  Alexandria, Egypt - (20 cities named after Alexander the Great)

 Trade- major city,  commercial center (hub)  Trade routes- cultures continue to mix

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Hellenistic Culture  Alexandria, Egypt -  Trade- major city,  commercial center (hub)  Trade routes- cultures continue to mix

 Increase in trade,

 New Ideas, new values  Women go out in public, have more rights  Women could own property

Hellenistic Culture  Polis decline (city)  People turn to religion and philosophies  Satisfy needs of belonging

 Monarchy replace them slowly

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Hellenistic Culture  Polis decline (city)  People turn to religion and philosophies  Satisfy needs of belonging

 Monarchy replace them slowly

 Religion and Philosophy - begin to see connection between the kings and religion.

 4 schools of Philosophers (Ethics)

Hellenistic Culture 4 schools of Philosophers (Ethics)

 Cynicism - live simple lives without regard for pleasure, wealth & social status

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Hellenistic Culture 4 schools of Philosophers (Ethics)

 Cynicism - live simple lives without regard for pleasure, wealth & social status

 Skeptics- all knowledge is uncertain

Hellenistic Culture 4 schools of Philosophers (Ethics)

 Cynicism - live simple lives without regard for pleasure, wealth & social status

 Skeptics- all knowledge is uncertain

 Stoic- divine reason directs world, accept fate without complaint- spark of divine within them. Follow spark!

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Hellenistic Culture 4 schools of Philosophers (Ethics)

 Cynicism - live simple lives without regard for pleasure, wealth & social status

 Skeptics- all knowledge is uncertain  Stoic- live life with the will of god or the natural laws that God established to run universe…Human desires, power and wealth are dangerous distractions….divine reason directs world, accept fate without complaint  Epicurean – Only real objects are those that the five senses precieve. Aim of life is to seek pleasure (food), avoid pain. Limit desires to avoid suffering.Achieve harmony of body & mind

 Sculpture: Statues to honor gods, heroes, and ordinary people.

 Colossus of Rhodes(island of Rhodes) 100 foot bronze statue. 7 Wonders of the Ancient World (earthquake destorys it.)

 NATURAL WORKS.

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Hellenistic Culture   Science - lots of inventions  World is not flat  No interest in discoveries of labor saving

machines - slaves could do it.

Hellenistic Culture   Science - lots of inventions  World is not flat  No interest in discoveries of labor saving

machines - slaves could do it.  Euclid #22 - “Elements”geometry -shapes  Archimedes -(honorable mention 100+)   pi = the ratio of circumference of a circle to its diameter

 Archimedes Screw=  pulls water upward  Still used today!

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Hellenistic Culture  Medicine  Egypt- center of medical science  Embalming  Study bodies of executed criminals  Herophilus = Brain is center of nervous system

Hellenistic Culture  Astronomy & Geography

 Track stars  Earth moved around Sun  Predict eclipses  Earth is round  Eratosthenes = Distance around earth, (very

accurate) did so by finding the angle of suns rays on different locations on earth

Aristarchus: 1. sun at least 100 times larger thean earth 2. earth evolves around sun. (not accepted)

*Ptolemy incorrectly placed the earth at the center of solar system. (accepted view for 1400 years.)