Today in class we talked about regions and places. Every place on earth is both unique and different at the same time. It seems contradicting but it is true the Amazon rain forest and the Sahara desert are very different however their very sunny compared to mammoth cave. Places are more a pinpoint area and a region is a larger expanse of area. Different areas are grouped in different regions but places are to specific to be large areas of land.
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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