In class today we talked about the odessy. The odessy was written by a person named homer most likely however there is a question as to weather or not this is true. Some people believe that many people worked on the odessy. They believe that homer is a myth created to make the odessy more interesting. We also listened to the odessy to learn how it would have been read.
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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