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  Alexandria timeline
     
332 BC
 
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While in Egypt, Alexander founds Alexandria – the best known of the many towns he establishes to spread Greek culture       
Marble portrait of Alexander the Great, c.100 BC
British Museum

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322 BC
 
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Alexander's corpse, hijacked by Ptolemy, becomes a sacred relic in Alexandria       
c. 300 BC
 
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Euclid, teaching at the museum in Alexandria, writes what becomes Europe's standard textbook on geometry       
c. 280 BC
 
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The Jewish community of Alexandria coins the word diaspora for Jews living far from Israel       
c. 280 BC
 
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The Alexandrian school of medicine develops an alarming form of clinical anatomy – human vivisection