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Lesson 4  Hellenistic Culture

ESSENTIAL QUESTION
How do new ideas change the
way people live?

Hellenistic Arts

Evaluating  Use your textbook to determine if each statement

is true or false. Write T or F in the blank next to the statement.
If the statement is false, rewrite it to make it true.

TRUE 1. T
 he Hellenistic World was made up of Greece,
Southwest Asia, and Egypt.

FLASE 2. The Greek capital of Egypt was Cairo.

Alexandria

TRUE 3. Hellenistic kings spent huge amounts of money

to make their cities like Athens and other Greek
cultural centers.

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FALSE 4. Hellenistic sculptors made the human form more
idealistic and perfect than earlier Greek sculptors
had.
They made the human form more realistic than perfect.

TRUE 5. The plays of Greek New Comedy told stories

about ordinary people.
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6. Identifying  Write the letter of the writer on the left next

to his description on the right.

Hellenistic Writers

a. Appolonius of Rhodes C   wrote humorous plays.

b. Theocritus A   wrote Argonautica about Jason

and the golden fleece.

c. Menander B   wrote short poems about the

beauty of nature.

Thinkers and Scientists

7. The items in the list below are characteristics of the two main
schools of philosophy in the Hellenistic Era. Complete the chart  
by writing each item under the philosophy it describes.

Avoid pain. Finding happiness is the goal of life.

Avoid worry. Live simply.
Do not be guided by emotion. Serve your community.
Do your duty. Spend time with friends.
Find happiness through using reason. Use sound thinking to make decisions.

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Hellenistic Philosophies

Epicurus / Epicureanism Zeno / Stoicism

Finding happiness is the goal of life. Do not be guided by emotion.

Avoid pain. Do your duty.

Spend time with friends. Find happiness through using reason.

Avoid worry. Serve your community.

Live simply. Use sound thinking to make decisions.

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8. Describing  You are a historian documenting the various

contributions from the Hellenistic Era in science and
mathematics. Describe some of those advances on the
scrolls below and tell who made them.

Astronomy
Eratosthenes measured
the circumference of the
earth along with the
distance between the
Earth the sun and the
moon. He also found that
the sun is in the center of
the universe.
Mathematics
Euclid was the father of
plane geometry,
Archimedes founded Pi,
and was the father of
solid geometry.

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Greece and Rome

9. In the flowchart below, write three things that happened
that led to Greece’s being conquered by Rome.

Alexander's turned into 4 kingdoms who were at war.

City states had weak armies.

City states failed at attempting to help people who fought against Rome.

Rome conquers Greece.

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