Introduction

Today in Western Civilization we took a test. I thought I didn’t do terrible possibly got a passing grade! The test was about Greece and its democracy, leadership's, its culture, and the people in it. Like Euclid, he was the one person who created the geometry book that we still use today. He lived in Alexandria and lived in 300 BCE and systemized ancient Greek and Near Eastern mathematics and geometry. He wrote The Elements, the most widely used mathematics and geometry textbook in history. Older books sometimes confuse him with Euclid of Megara. Modern economics has been called “a series of footnotes to Adam Smith,” who was the author of The Wealth of Nations.

Alexanders Empire, Philip built Macedonia and became king in 359 B.C at age 23. He was an expansionist who wanted all of Asia. Before he could conquer Persia he died. His son Alexander then declared himself king at age 21 and threatened that if anyone disagreed with his rule he would have them executed. Then he conquered his way from Macedonia East and never lost a battle. After 11 years of being in war with other countries, Alexander and his men headed back to Macedonia until they hit the city in the center of Asia, Babylon. Alexander then died at 32 years old from sickness/fever.

Today in class Ryan Vanskiver presented his project. It was about the Homeric question and weather Homer really existed. It was also about his life style and the predicted time he was born. The Homeric Question  concerns the doubts and consequent debate over the identity of  Homer , the authorship of the Iliad and Odyssey, and their historicity (especially concerning the Iliad). Homer was the assumed author of two of the greatest epics, the Iliad and Odyssey! He is also one of the most influential authors in the widest sense, for the two epics provided the basis of Greek education  and  culture throughout the Classical age and formed the backbone of humane education down to the time of the Roman Empire and the spread of Christianity. Indirectly through the medium of  Virgil’s Aeneid (which was loosely molded after the patterns of the  Iliad  and the  Odyssey ), directly through their revival under  Byzatine  culture from the late...