Monday, April 8, 2019

Notes

Textbook Notes:
- King Philip ll of Macedonia 
-Macedonia- located North of Greece, cold, rough terrain (mountainous villages) (people thought of themselves as Greeks even though most Greeks looked down on them)
-Macedonians had shrewd and fearless kings
-King Philip turned peasants into well-trained professional army (came up with phalanxes)
-Demosthenes
-Darius lll: Persian 
-Alexander the Great - conquered land from Greece to the Indus Valley

Page 146-149
-Hellenistic- culture blended with Egyptians, Persian, and Indians influences
-Alexandria- center of commerce and nile delta
-Improvements- astronomy, math and physics, bronzed mirror that reflected light from blazing fire
-Colossus of Rhodes
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