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sfs ss final
chapter 5 - section 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what a person leaves behind when he or she dies | legacy |
| period when the Greek language and Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek peoples of southwest Asia | Hellenistic Era |
| kingdom located north of Greece; the Greeks looked down on the Macedonians but by 400 B.C. Macedonia had become a powerful kingdom | Macedonia |
| became king of Mecedonia in 359 B.C. and had lived in Greece as a young man and admired everything about the Greeks | Phillip II |
| ---- wanted to make his kingdom strong enough to defeat the Persian Empire | Phillip II |
| in order to achieve his goal of defeating the Persian Empire Phillip needed to ----the Greek city-states with his own kingdom | unite |
| Philip II ---- a vast army of foot soldiers and began taking over the city-states one by one | vast |
| in 338 BC, the ----- crushed the Greek allies at the Battle of Chaeronea and Phillip gained in control of most of Greece; Phillip was murdered before he could carry out his plan to conquer the Persian empire | Macedonians |
| ----- was Phillip'S son and was only 20 when his father died and he became king of Macedonian | Alexander the Great |
| Alexander the Great was a very skilled military ---- who helped extend Greek and Macedonian rule over a cast area | leader |
| Alexander and his --- spread Greek art, ideas, language, and architecture wherever they went in southwest Asia and northern Africa | armies |
| Alexander's ---- marked the beginning of the Hellenistic Era | conquests |
| Alexander's empire stretched across 3 continents - Europe, Africa, and Asia | Alexander's Vast Empire |
| city in northern Egypt (on the Mediterranean) that was designed \ built by Alexander the Great | Alexandria |
| Alexandria became one of the most ---- cities of the ancient world where the Lighthouse of Alexandria was located | important |
| philosophy founded by Epicurus in Hellenistic Athens; taught that happiness through the pursuit of pleasure was the goal of life | Epicureanism |
| philosophy founded by Zeno in Hellenistic Athens; taught that happiness came not from emotions, but from following reason and doing one's duty | Stoicism |
| person who studies stars, planets and other heavenly bodies | astronomer |
| branch of mathematics that shows how points, lines, angles, and surfaces relate to one another | plane geometry |
| branch of mathematics that studies spheres and cylinders | solid geometry |
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