studied the causes of illnesses and looked for cures
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How did Greece's geography influence its early civilizations
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In encouraged people to become sailors and traders yet keeping cities separate
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aristocrat
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A member of a rich and powerful family
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What was the Socratic method
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a way of teaching students to think alone by asking questions and forcing the students to answer and think deep, instead of just telling them ideas and things
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Tyrant
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A ruler supported by the middle and working classes in Greece
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What are some topics that Philosophers debated
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Ethics,morality, government,human behavior
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What is Pericles known for?
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He wanted to establish Athens as the leader of the Greek world and wanted to build an acropolis that represented the city's glory. He rebuilt many temples on the acropolis that were destroyed by the Persians.
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peninsula
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land surrounded by water on three sides
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Who were the greatest Athenian playwrights
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Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
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Who did Phillip 11 hire to tutor his son
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Aristotle
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Archimedes
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applied principles of physics to make practical inventions
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Who is the father of history
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Herodotus
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Epic
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a long poem that tells a story
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What are the Iliad and the Odyssey about?
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Trojan War
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Euclid
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wrote The Elements, a textbook that became the basis for modern geometry
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Why were some of the ideas of ancient Greek philosophers
considered a threat to Greek society and tradition
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These ideas we're considered a threat because people enjoyed tradition and didn't want that to change
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What did the sculptors in the Parthenon look like
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Rigid poses imitating Egyptian styles
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Acropolis
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A highly rocky hill where early people built cities
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Who is the goddess of fertility and wine
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Dionysus
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Tradegy
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A Greek drama that ends in disaster
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Oracle
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A sacred site used to consult a god or goddess
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What did early Greek philosophers believed in
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They believed they could discover laws that governed the universe
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What new roles and jobs were women able to preform
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Reading, writing, some became philosophers or poets. Also started painting
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What did Greece's physical geography look like
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It had mountains, peninsulas, islands, and bays
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Where is Alexandria located?
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Egypt
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Solon helped promote democracy in Athens by changing laws that
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He was all about fairness enslaved citizens with debts
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How was Phillip 11 killed
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Assassinated at his daughters wedding
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How did the soil help the crops
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It was very rich because of the flooding
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What is the order of government in Greece
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Monarchy, Aristocracy, oligarchy, direct democracy
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Know why Greek civilization clasped during the Dark Ages
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No one knows
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What is the most famous example of Greek architecture
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Parthenon
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What best describes the citizens of Athens
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They were very open and fair and also let others vote in the Assembly
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Where did Alexander win his his first battle against the Persians
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Granicus River
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Heliocentric
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Sun-centered, solar system not accepted by most scientists until almost until almost 2,000 years later
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The Dark Ages of Greece were a period during what. What happened during this period
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Where Greece and Aegean region was isolated from the world. The Trojan War
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philosopher
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lover of, or searcher for, wisdom or knowledge; person who regulates his or her life by the light of reason
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What did Greeks admire
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The classical style
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What civilization built a temple in Knossos
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The Minoan civilization
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Pythagoras
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derived a formula to calculate the relationship between the sides of a right triangle
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Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
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Homer, a blind poet
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Socrates and Plato
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two philosophers from ancient Greece (teacher & student); believed knowledge to be innate and that the mind & body are distinct
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How did trade affect the development of early Greek
civilizations
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Trade affects the development by bringing wealth and success to the Greek civilization