The most brilliant age in the history of science prior to the seventeenth century a.d. was the period of the Hellenistic civilization. Indeed, many of the achievements of the modern age would scarcely have been possible without the discoveries of the scientists of Alexandria, Syracuse, Pergamum, and other great cities of the Hellenistic world. The reasons for the phenomenal development of science in the centuries after the downfall of Alexander's empire are not far to seek. Alexander himself had given some financial encouragement to the progress of research. More important was the stimulus provided for intellectual inquiry by the fusion of Chaldean and Egyptian science with the learning of the Greeks. Possibly a third factor was the new interest in luxury and comfort and the demand for practical knowledge which would enable man to solve the problems of a disordered and unsatisfying existence.
The main reason was money....
Answer:
Mnemonics
Explanation:
In psychology and memory, the term mnemonics are techniques that a person uses to help them remember some information. In other words, it's a technique you use to help you encode and recall information in a better way.
Some mnemonics include making a story, create a word with the first letter of a list of words you need to learn, etc.
In this example, <u>Fabienne is creating a sentence where the first letter of each key term represents an important concept that she will need to know.</u> We can see that <u>she is using a technique that helps her encode and recall information (for the exam) in a better way.</u> Thus, she is using the retrieval cue of mnemonics.
