So today blew my mind it was just that fact that the map we are using is completly wrong. There are two main maps the one we talked about was Peters map. The one we use in most schools today make Europe and America look bigger and Africa and South America look smaller. There was a reason the map made them larger because back in 1500 when the map was made was sailing in a straight line to America is easier than a curved line. Peters map doesn't have to do that because its not the twenty first century because we don't sail over the ocean to get other countries anymore to settle there. Even when we do go over the ocean by boat we use Gps. Massachusetts schools however have decided that its best to move to Peters map and might be the reason why we will changing to Peters map in this country.
1 hellenistic: the blend of greek Indian and middle eastern culture. Alexandria: major city on the nile and was a center of knowledge. Euclid: was a respected mathematician and created the basics of geometry. archimedes: was the scientist that estimated the value of pie and explained how the lever works. colossus of Rhodes: a one hundred foot tall bronze statue. 2 geometry had the biggest achievements as we built on these ideas and use them in many other subjects. 3 when traders came to Alexandria they brought their culture with them. Alexandria learned from them how the lived and their knowledge to mix in with the rest of what they learned. 4 He had made up rules of basic geometry so astronomers used it to estimate the circumference of the earth.
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