ch. 6 set 2
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- Epicurus
- founder of Epicurun philosophy; taught aim of life is to seek pleasure and avoid pain and people should limit their desires
- Hellenistic culture
- "Greek way of life" which was the combined ideas and values drawn from the Mediterranean and Asia
- Archimedes
- greatest scientist of Hellenistic Age; founded pi
- Alexander the Great
- son of Philip who succeeded him;had the best military training and educatioin possible that prepared him for leadership, wanted to bring all of the known world into one empire and spread greeek culture as he conquered lands
- Demosthenes
- an orator/public speaker who led Athenian oppostion to Philip
- Diogenes
- best known Cynic
- Aristarchus
- correctly believed tha the earth and other planets moved around the sun
- Euclid
- contirbuted extremely important work to the developement of geometry
- Zeno
- established the Stoic philosophy in athens; he and his followers believed that divine reason directs the world
- Erastosthenes
- calculated the distance around the earth with amazing accuracy
- Pyrrho
- founder of Skepticism; knowledge is uncertain
- Philip II of Macedon
- young king who recruited and organized the best disciplined army in Macedonian history (copied from greeks)