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Alexander the Great
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son of Philip of Macedon
twenty when he inherited the throne as a beauty eventually won Greek favor by beating Persians pushed his army harder than they could go died in 323 BC at the age of 32 allowed Persians to take high place in army |
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Gaugamela
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place where Alexander won a decisive victory against the Persians in 331 BC
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Hellenistic Age
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a great cosmopolitan culture developed
Alex had policy of brining Greeks to conquered cities Alexandria in Egypt became biggest |
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Ptolemy
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ruled Egypt after the death of Alexander and murder of the heirs
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Cosmopolitanism
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money was coming in and careers were successful
large farm plantations emerged movement towards individualism |
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Religion in Hellenistic Age
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personal fulfillment and salvation became critical
search for personal answers in uncertain world mixing of several religions |
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cosmopolis
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the idea of common humanity
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Mithras
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cult that incorporated the cosmic struggle between good and evil but added the idea of a savior hero who redeemed humanity
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syncretism
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notion that gods of different peoples are actually various manifestations of the same god
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skeptics
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denied the possibility of any knowledge at all and said humans are incapable of apprehending reality
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cynics
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they were rebellious against hypocrisy
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stoicism
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believed in the worthlessness of wordily goods and the supreme importance of the individual virtue
built up by Zeno effort matters more than accomplishment |
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ataraxia
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greek, meaning freedom from disturbance
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Epicureans
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believed in a quiet, balanced life
philosophy of withdrawal |
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Euclid
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organized plane and solid geometry into a systematic, integrated body of knowledge
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Archimedes
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discovered specific gravity and worked with levers and pulleys to almost invent calculus
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Eratosthenes
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produced the most thorough and accurate world maps for his time
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Aristarchus
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suggested that the earth rotates daily on its axis and revolves yearly around the sun
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Hipparchus
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developed a complete system of circles and sub circles for earth
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Ptolemy
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geocentric model of the universe
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