Hellenistic Culture
Greek culture blended with Egytpian, Persian, and Indian influences
The language that was used was called Koine meaning common
Common language was very important as it allowed for people throughtout all of Macedonian Empire
Alexandria
Center of Hellenistic culture
Located on western edge of the Nile delta
Easy for people throughout the MAcedonian Empire to get to the ship
Booming econoy due to all the diff customs
Similarities to Ellis Island
Alexandrias Apperance
spent alot of money and time into making the city attractive
2 greatest attraction were the musem and library
It was said that Alexandrer founded those buildings because Arisotle
Library was the first true ersearch library, it was used for a gifted group of scholors
Science and Tech
Scientic research that was done in Alexandria was influence
Astronomy
Musuem contained a small observatory where they could study stars and planets
Astronomer named Aristarchus made two very important conclusions which were:
Sun was bigger than the earth and that the planets revolved around the sun
Math and Phyics
Euclid- well known mathematician, also wrote a book
Archimedes- came up with the value of pi and also explained the law of the lever
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