5 Hellenistic Age

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What starts the Hellenistic age?

Alexander the Great dies

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What year does the Hellenistic age begin?

323 BC

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What ends the Hellenistic age?

Rome conquers Egypt

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What year does Hellenistic age end?

40BC

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Who is King Philip the second part of what country?

Macedonia

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Who is the son of King Philip the second?

Alexander the Great

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What battle, got King Philip ll, Greek city states?

Battle of Charonia

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When was the battle of Charonia?

338BC

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What areas did Alexander the Great conquer during his timeline?

Greece, Macedonia, Egypt, Near east (Middle East, Iran), Asia Minor (Turkey), Persia (India)

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After Alexander the Great dies who rules Egypt?

Ptolemy and Ptolemies

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After Alexander the Great dies who rules Near east?

Seleucus and seleuicids

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After Alexander the Great dies who rules Greece and Macedonia?

Antigonous and antagonids

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What is the most important, most Hellenistic area?

Egypt

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What is the Capital of Egypt?

Alexandria

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Alexandria is what in Hellenistic era?

Biggest city, greatest center of culture, and biggest library

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In Alexandria what got translated?

Old Testament

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The Old Testament was Hebrew and got translated to?

Greek

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What is the translation from Hebrew Bible called?

Septuagint

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What is the scattering of people (especially Jews) to many other areas?

Diaspora

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What became the most popular ways of culture and thinking and language during the Hellenism era?

Greek ways

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What were the three stages in time order of Hellenism?

Hellenic, Hellenistic, Greco-Roman

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How many years was Hellenism era?

300 years

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In Hellenic era (before he dies) what ended Cosmopolitan thinking (thinking about everyone in universe)?

Parochialism (worrying about only your town)

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Hellenistic culture was?

Universal and cosmopolitan

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Different cultures and different ways of life were mixed to?

Greek culture

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What is culture in mix of one Greek culture with different culture called?

Hellenistic

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Who tutored Alexander the Great?

Aristole

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A cosmopolitan culture is?

Universal and using the same languages

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A Urbanism culture is?

educated, taste, sophisticated, and contains other cultures

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A Parochial culture is?

One country or area only and using its own language

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What culture is the most similar with Hellenistic.

Urbanism

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Urbanism is in?

Only big cities

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Was it a big or small percentage in Hellenistic culture?

Small

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What type of people believed hellenistic culture?

Leader, educated, and wealthy

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What is in the middle of Europe and Asia and Africa?

Mediterranean sea

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Who started causing war problems with Hellenistic kingdoms?

Rome

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Greek culture was?

A ton of cultures on one

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Rulers from kingdoms brought what to their lands, which made Greek culture?

Greek books, statues, and paintings

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Hellenistic cities engaged in what?

Trade and business which made wealth

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Egypt is in?

Africa

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Founder of Alxendria is?

Alexander the Great

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Hellenzation could only happen in?

Cities

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Who is a scholar poet?

Callimachus

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Who is a poet?

Theocritus

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Who is a playwright?

Menander

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Who is a historian for ancient Roman republic?

Polybius

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Hellenistic art showed a new awareness of?

Ordinary individual

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Hellenistic scientist use?

Reason and reasonable examination

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Alexandrian doctors improved medical skills through?

Observation and experimentation

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Before Aristarchus people thought?

The earth was the center of the universe

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Who is the Alexandrian astronomer who said the sun is the middle of universe?

Aristarchus

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Who is a Alexandrian mathematician, who applied reason to geometry?

Euclid

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Who is the Alexandrian geographer, who divides the earth into climate zones?

Eratosthenes

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Who is a inventor who established general principles of hydrostatics?

Archimedes of Syracuse

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What is Epicureanism?

Philosophy

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Alexander vs who in the battle of guagomala?

Derias lll

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Who wins the battle of guagomala?

Alexander the Great

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What does Alexander the Great get from the battle of guagomala?

Persia

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Who thought that excessive pleasure does not lead to happiness?

Epicurus

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What is logos?

Divine Reason

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St. John says logos is?

Jesus Christ

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What is the reason inside every person?

Divine spark

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Why is Zeno important?

Founded stoicism

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What is stoicism?

Finding inner peace on what we can control

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What are two groups who liked stoicism?

Romans and Christians

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What is something we can’t know for certain, and the belief of no need to know absolute truth called?

Skepticism

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Who insisted that all ideas must be regarded as a guess instead of a truth?

Cameades of Cyrene

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What is the belief of rebelling against all law and authority?

Cynicism

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Who is a cynic who met Alexander the Great, and asked only that the emperor get out of his light?

Diogenes

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Who is the greatest lover and preserver for the future of Greek and Hellenistic culture and civilization?

Rome

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What is world society and who believed in it?

Where people are more important than boundaries (borders), Christians believe in it

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During Alexander formation of Roman Empire, Greek civilization spread?

East to west