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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Archimedes | A greek thinker who discovered volume. |
| Herodotus | An historical writer who is called the "father of history". |
| Thucydides | He wrote about the wars between athens and sparta and is considered one of the greatest historians of the ancient world. |
| Hippocrates | A greek man who believed diseases had natural causes.Called the "father of modern medicines". |
| Pythagoras | A greek scientist who believed that numbers wer a key to understanding nature. |
| Euclid | A greek mathematician who wrote a geometery textbook and was the basis for teaching geometery for 2000 years. |
| Hypatia | She was a highly respected mathematician and philosopher. |
| Aristotal | A greek philosopher who was fascinated by living things.He classified them as "those with and those without backbones". |
| Latitude | A measure of how far a place on earth is from the equator. |
| Longitude | A measure of how far a place on earth is from an imaginary line (Prime Meridian)that runs between the north and south poles on the globe. |