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Greek Thinkers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Statue of Athena | Phidias |
| A2 + B2 = C2 | Pythagoras |
| Writes the Elements | Euclid |
| Taught students to question everything | Socrates |
| Creates the Academy as a school in Athens | Plato |
| Writes the History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides |
| Believed studying the past would allow us to not make the same mistakes in the future | Thucydides |
| In his Histories it is recorded if the information is a primary or secondary source | Herodotus |
| Father of Geometry | Euclid |
| Believed government's value is determined by its rulers not its institution | Aristotle |
| The Father of History | Herodotus |
| Wrote the Trojan Women | Euripides |
| Conquers and area stretching from Greece to Egypt and India | Alexander the Great |
| Wrote Medea | Euripides |
| Wrote Oedipus Rex | Sophocles |
| Taught Alexander the Great | Aristotle |
| Wrote the Republic | Plato |
| Wrote Orestia and over 80 tragedies | Aeschylus |
| Is held captive in Thebes allowing him to learn about the Greek army | Philip II of Macedon |
| Spreads Hellenistic culture throughout a large empire | Alexander the Great |
| Writes the Iliad and Odyssey | Homer |
| Executed for corrupting young minds | Socrates |
| Traveled the ancient world recording down his 1st hand accounts | Herodotus |
| Writes about Agamemnon's family while he was off fighting in the Trojan War | Aeschylus |
| Explained philosophy through math and created the Pythagorean Theorem | Pythagoras |
| Creates the compound pulley | Archimedes |
| Assassinated by his bodyguard at his daughter's wedding celebration | Philip II of Macedon |
| Creates the water screw | Archimedes |
| Writes about the ugly and realistic side of war | Euripides |
| Father of Medical Science | Hippocrates |
| Specified in his Histories if information was a primary or secondary source | Herodotus |
| Calculates pi | Archimedes |
| He writes many medical studies and has an ethics oath named after him | Hippocrates |
| Takes over all Greece except Sparta | Philip II of Macedon |
| Was a blind poet during the 700s BC | Homer |
| Made Athens more democratic by dividing Athens up into 10 different Tribes | Cleisthenes |
| Great leader of Athens during the Golden Age | Pericles |
| Categorizes things in Science | Aristotle |
| Socrates' student. He wrote down Socrates' teachings | Plato |
| Aristotle's student | Alexander the Great |
| Died in Babylon. Exact reason for death is unknown. | Alexander the Great |
| Drank hemlock to die rather than being ostracized | Socrates |
| In his book he describes that a perfect society and government would be an Aristocracy of Merit. (A small group of educated intellectuals.) | Plato |
| Creates one of the seven wonders of the ancient world the statue of Zeus at Olympia | Phidias |
| Wrote the Ethics and Poetics | Aristotle |
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