Ch. 6 Set 2
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- Eratosthenes
- calculated the distance around the earth by finding the angle of the sun's rays from different points on the globe
- Pyrrho
- founder of Skepticism
- Euclid
- showed how geometric statements flow logically from one one another
- Epicurus
- founder of the Epicurean philosophy, taught that the aim of life is to seek pleasure and avoid pain by limiting their desires
- Archimedes
- calculated the value of pi, used mathematics to explain how levers worked, and invented the compound pulley and Archimedes screw
- Demothenes
- an orator who led the Athenian opposition to Philip
- Diogenes
- best-known Cynic
- Aristarchus
- believed that the earth and other planets moved around the sun
- Zeno
- established the Stoic philosophy in Athens and believed that divine reason directs the world and that every person had some spark of the divine within
- Hellenistic culture
- combined the ideas and values drawn from the Mediterranean and Asia
- Philip II of Macedon
- hostage of Thebes for three years, organized his infantry into phalanxes, and tried to restore order to Greece
- Alexander the Great
- recieved military training in the Macedonian army and education from Aristotle, won the loyalty of his troops, and set out to conquer the world