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ss final ch5
chapter 5 - section 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| study of the nature and meaning of life; comes from the Greek word for "love of wisdom" | philosophy |
| professional teacher in ancient Greece; believed that people should use knowledge to improve themselves and developed the art of public speaking and debate | sophist |
| way of teaching developed by Socrates used a question-and-answer format to force students to use their reason to see things for themselves | Socratic method |
| Greek philosopher who believed that all relationships in the world expressed in numbers; | Pythagoras |
| Greek philosopher who invented the Socratic Method; he was accused of teaching young Athenians to rebel and was sentenced to death | Socrates |
| a student of Socrates' Plato rejected the idea of democracy as a form of government; he believed that philosopher-kings should rule society; he described his vision of the ideal government in his work the Republic | Plato |
| Plato's best student; wrote more than 200 books on topics ranging from government to the planets and stars; | Aristotle |
| opened his own school called ---- where he taught his pupils the "golden mean" | Lyceum |
| Aristotle divided all governments into 3 basic types | monarchy aristocracy or an oligarchy democracy |
| Aristotle noticed that governments run by ----- people were usually run by the rich and that most democracies were run by the poor | few |
| Aristotle thought the best government was a ----- of a government that is run by both the rich and poor | mixture |
| the ----- of the U.S. Constitution tried to create a mixed government that balanced the different types Aristotle had identified | writers |
| Greek historian; wrote the history of the Persian Wars' Western historians consider him the "father of history" | Herodotus |
| considered by many to be the greatest historian of the ancient world;wrote History of the Peloponnese War | Thucydides |
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