Absent, But Got Notes

I was absent today because I went to the Envirothon competition.  However, Caleb sent me the test review notes that were taken in class. Here are the notes:

• Philip II: king of Macedonia, Alexander's father
• Alexander educated by Aristotle
• Macedonia in Northern Greece
• Alexander became king at 20
• Philip II assassinated by guardsmen --> Alexander became king
• Darius II: king of Persia
• after defeat --> offers peace treaty --> Alexander says no
• Alexander conquers Persia
• went to Egypt --> become pharaoh
• merged culture wherever he went
• Hydaspes War --> Greek victory
• won against elephants
• soldiers told Alexander to go home 
• made Babylon Capital
• dies at 32 before he could rule at Babylon
• after he dies, empire split into 3 sections and then collapses

• hellenistic: Greek culture mixed with Egyptian, Persian, and Indian culture
• Alexander was center of economies and Nile Delta
• Euclid: high mathematician that taught geometry (still used today) in Athens
• Archimedes: Greek mathematician who computed pi father than anyone else before
• able to compute how far around the world is
• comedy: Lysistrata written by Aristophanes - women mad about men at war
• tragedy: Oedipus Rex, Sophocles - can't avoid own fate
• aristocracy: rich people rule
• Plato wrote book "apology" "allegory of the law"
• Aristotle: taught Alexander the Great, student of Plato, created lyceum (like Google)