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Greece Legacies
Famous Greeks and the legacies they left behind.
| Person | Legacy |
|---|---|
| Archimedes | Greek thinker that discovered that you could find volume by measuring the amount of water that came out of a bathtub when you put an object in. |
| Herodotus | Greek historian, also known as the “father of history”. |
| Thucydides | A Greek writer that wrote about Greek wars. |
| Hippocrates | A doctor in ancient Greece that treated diseases, an oath was named after him. |
| Pythagoras | Ancient Greek mathematician that was fascinated with geometry and started a math school where student created mathematical theories, a theorem was named after him. |
| Euclid | Made a geometry textbook that was used to teach students math for over 2,000 years. |
| Hypatia | Was the first women mathematics and philosophy teacher to earn fame. |
| Aristotle | Was a Greek philosopher who studied plants and animals, was taught by Plato. |