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Greek Thinkers
Match for Legacies Test
Term | Definition |
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Archemides | bath, experiment, discovery, measure, volume |
Hypatia | philosophy, Alexandria, Egypt, first woman known for mathematics, woman, born in 370 CE |
Herodotus | father of history, developed historical writing, historian, role model, writer |
Aristotle | philosopher, plants, organize plants and animals, animals, fascinated by living things |
Hippocrates | cure, changed the way people think about health and medicine, doctor, Hippocratic Oath, medicine, scientific way of thinking |
Thucydides | writer, wrote about war between Athens and Sparta, role model, historian, greatest historian of the ancient world |
Pythagoras | Teacher, scientist, started a school, mathematical theories, mathematics key to understanding nature, geometry |
Euclid | wrote a Geometry Textbook, famous, his book teaches geometry, mathematician, more than 2,000 years using his textbook |