Conquest of Macedonians

• Philip II was killed by his subordinates. He was succeeded by his son, Alexander the great.
• Alexander was 20 when he became a king
• Alexander subdued Greek rebellions
• Alexander established Alexandria in northern Egypt, which became the center of the imperial trade and Hellenistic culture
• His power was divided among his 3 great generals when he died. His 3 great generals were Ptolemy, Seleucus, and antigonus
• The 3 kinds of column

  Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian

  
• Homer - Iliad and Odyssey
• Parthenon is the most well known greek architecture
• Tragedy is a form of drama centered on love, war and hatred
• Comedy has a humorous and sarcastic tone
• Socrates - "Socratic method" acquiring knowledge by question and answer
• Plato - student of Socrates and wrote " the republic"
• Aristotle - established the lyceum
• Hippocrates - the "father of medicine" he contributed the Hippocratic oath, a code of ethics for doctors
• Pythagoras - phytagorean theorem
• Euclid - elements of geometry
• Archimedes - "father of mathematics"
• Herodotus - "father of history"
• Thucydides - wrote the history of Peloponnesian war