Guided Readings 4-5 World History
The word Hellenistic is derived from a Greek word meaning ______ .
"to imitate Greeks"
_____ was only 20 when he became king of Macedonia.
Alexander the Great
The city of ______ became and remains today one of the most important cities in both ______ and the ______ world.
Alexandria, Egypt, Mediterranean
Eventually, four Hellenistic kingdoms emerged as the successors to Alexander: _____ , _____ , _____ , and _____ .
Macedonia, Syria, Pergamum, Egypt
The Greeks viewed their northern neighbors, the _____ , as barbarians.
Macedonians
Alexander's invasion of the ______ was motivated by the desire for glory but also by the desire to avenge the Persian burning of ______ in 480 B.C.
Persian Empire; Athens
The Greek cities of the Hellenistic Era became the chief agents in the spread of Greek culture in _____ .
Southwest Asia
According to the _____ , happiness could be found only when people gained inner peace by living in _____ with the will of God.
Stoics; harmony
Hellenistic buildings characteristic of the Greek homeland were _____ , and _____ .
baths, theaters, temples
Eratosthenes determined the Earth was _____ and calculated its _____ at 24,675 miles.
round; circumference
Epicureans believed that human beings were free to follow _____ as a basic motivating force.
self-interest
Archimedes was important because of his work on the geometry of _____ and _____ , as well as for establishing the value of the math constant ______ .
spheres, cylinders; pi