HIST-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Latifundium, Diocletian, Old Italic Script
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Athens had a geographical disadvantage, so they lost. Athenian dominance of the greek world was ended. A disease broke out and many were killed. Basic concepts of greek religion: polytheistic, many gods. Alexander the great and hellenistic culture: the legacy of alexander in the city of alexandria, egypt. Alexandria has a bit of all hellenistic cultures. The library in alexandria was a collection of knowledge (alexander encouraged work of scholars: news schools of thought during the hellenistic civilization (p. 122) The idea of stoicism was to avoid desires and accept was life brought. They taught all people (even women and slaves) were morally equal: advances in learning and medicine during the hellenistic age (pp. Archimedes: used physics to make the pulley and level. Hippocrates: studied illnesses, cures, and made a medical oath. Define: etruscans, republic, patrician, consul, dictator, plebeian, veto, tribune: etruscans: early romans who lived in the north romans/latins adapted.
