HIST 10800 Lecture 1: Hellenism
Document Summary
Was a mix of greek, persian, indian, and egyptian culture. Koine was a language formed by this cultural melding communication expands through the hellenistic world. Alexandria occupied a strategic site on the western edge of the nile delta. It was the center of commerce ships from all of the mediterranean docked in the harbor. It held an international community mix of customs/traditions; egyptians + aegeans. Museum astronomy observatory; aristarchus of sarmos sun; he concluded it was larger than the earth and all planets revolve around the sun; eratosthenes calculated. In mathematics, euclid wrote elements, which consisted of geometry prepositions and proofs the basis of geometry today; archimedes of syracuse estimated the value of pi and explained the law of the lever invented archimedes screw (compound pulley. Lifted heavy objects), as he knew physics too. Main ideas of the major hellenistic schools of philosophy: They stated how people should live their lives.
