Hippocrates

Euclid

Alexandria

Erastosthenes

papyrus scrolls

  













      The Hellenistic civilization adopt some of the cultures of Greeks. The joined cultures of Egyptian, Persians and Indian results to the Hellenistic Civilization that was started when Alexander died. The city of Alexandria is very known for their library. It is known for it’s half a million papyrus scrolls that it is all about the the ancient civilizations story. Some people in the Alexandria is also known for it’s some contributions in this civilization. In the field of astronomy, it is Erastosthenes who measured the exact circumference of the world. In the field of mathematics, the Euclid’s contribution is the knowledge of geometry. And Hippocrates, known on the field of medicine wrote Corpus Hippocraticum.