Hellenistic Culture- Greek culture blended with egyptian and persian and indian influences.
Language was called Koine meaning Common in Greek.
Alexandria- center of the Hellenistic culture. By Nile river. trade at Alexandria.
Alexandria was decorated very well so it looked very good. Museum and Library was the two greatest attractions.
The library was for him to right down his achievments and put them in it.
Science and Technology research was done at Alexandria.
Astronomy was the main science studied. Aristarchus stated that the sun is 300 times bigger than earth but is acctually 1.3 million times bigger.
He also stated that the sun was the center of the solar system and the planets revolve around the sun.
Math and physics- Euclid was a well known mathematician also wrote a book Know for writing proofs.
Archimedes Came up with the value pi and explained the law of a lever and created the first pulley.
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