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Chapter 31 names
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Archimedes | a Greek thinker that discovered volume |
| Herodotus | An historical writer who is called "father of history" |
| Thucydides | He wrote about the wars between Athens and Sparta and considered one of the greatest historians in the ancient world |
| Hippocrates* | A greek man who belived that dieseses had natrual causes Called the "father of modern medicine" |
| Phythagoras | A greek scientest who belived that numbers are the ley to understanding nature |
| Euclid | a Greel mathematition who wrote a geometry textbook and was the basis of teaching geometry for over 2000 years |
| Hypathia | She was a highly respected mathmatiton and philosopher |
| Aristotle** | A greek philosoper who was fascinate dby living things. He classified them as Tose with and those without backbones |
| Latitude | the measure of ho wfar a place on earth from the equator |
| Longitude | the measure of how far a place on earth from an imaginary line (Prime Merdian) that runs between North and South Poles on the globe |