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SS ch.8 notecards
Question | Answer |
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A traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of people, or something in the natural world | Myth |
Words or actions that are part of a religious ceremony | Ritual |
A sacred shrine where a priest or priestess ops poke for a god or goddess | Oracle |
A story that ment to teach a lesson | Fable |
The custom of passing along stories of a speecha | Oral tradition |
A story written in the form of a play | Drama |
A play or a film in wich characters fail to come over a serious problem(s) | Tragedy |
A play or film that tells a humerous story | Comedy |
The art of public speaking and debate | Rhetoric |
greek teachers of pholosaph,reasoning and public speaking | Sophists |
Philosophical method of questioning to gain truth | Socratic method |
A set of promises about patient care that new doctors make when they start practicing medicine | Hippocratic oath |
Part of an army in which the soldiers ride horses | Calvery |
The time period following the death of alexander during witch greek culture spread through the known world | Hellenistic era |
The philosophy of Epicurus starting that the purpose of life is to look for happiness and peace | Epicureanism |
The philosophy of the stoics who believed that people should not try to feel joy or saddness | Stoicism |
the outer boarde of a circle; the meserment of that boarder | circumference |
a branch of mathimatics centered around measurement and relationships of points,lines,angels,andsurfaces of figures on a plane | plane geometry |
a branch of mathematics about measurement and relationships of points,lines,angels,surfaces,and solids in 3d space | solid geometry |