Chapter 31
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ancient greece's gifts to the modern world
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What does "Eureka" mean in Greek? | I have found it. |
| What does the word "alphabet" come from? | The first two Greek letters of the alphabet, alpha and beta. |
| How does the ancient Greek language influence the English language? | the way we write sentences , the rules of grammar, punctuation,and paragraphing, and literature |
| What did the people of ancient Greece believe illnesses were caused by? | they believed that the gods controlled natural events,including health and illness. |
| How are Greek architectural styles used in buildings? | pediments, freezes... Add more |
| Complete the sentence: The practice of having citizens serve on __________ began in Greece. | Juries |
| Who was called "Father Of Modern Medicine?" | Hippocrates |
| What does the word "theater" mean in Greek? | a viewing place |
| _____________ and ___________ made important advances in geometry that are still taught today. | Pythagoras and Euclid |
| What did Aristotle divide plants into? | Herbs, shrubs, and trees |
| What are some types of buildings in which you commonly might see examples of Greek architecture in the United States? | the white house |
| What is a stoa? | A covered porch |
| What Greek root words make the word telephone and what do they mean? | The Greek roots "tele" meaning "far off" and "phone" meaning "voice" |
| Who were the two Greek writers we learned about and which one was called the "father of history?" | Herodotus and Thucydides. (Herodotus) |
| Where did democracy begin? | Athens |
| What is another name for democracy? | rule by the people |
| What are the three things that doctors promise in the Hippocratic Oath? | Doctors promise to be honest, to preserve life, and to keep information about their patients private. |
| What two things did Greek medical students discover about the human body? | 1.The heart is a pump that sends blood flowing throughout the body 2. The brain is the center of the nervous system |
| Who were the 3 mathematicians that we learned about? | Pythagoras, Euclid, and Hypatia |
| What does astronomy mean in Greek? | Star |
| Who was Aristarchus and what did he do that made him famous? | He was the 1st person to suggest that Earth moves around the sun. |
| Who was Hipparchus and what did he do that made him famous? | He studied and named more than 850 stars he also estimated the distances from Earth to both the sun and the moon. Theories led to correctly predicting eclipses of the moon. |
| _______________ was a famous Greek geographer. | Ptolemy |
| Ptolemy made what? | a system of lines drawn on a map called latitude and longitude and he wrote GEOGRAPHIA which listed 8000 places |
| How did Aristotle classify animals? | "those with backbones" and "those without backbones" |
| What word does architecture come from? | a Greek word that means "master builder" |
| Why were the Olympic Games held? | To honor Zeus |
| In Greece, the Olympic Games were held every _________ years. | Four |
| What does pentathalon mean? | "five contests" |
| Ptolemy made the system of ________ and _______. | Longitude and Latitude |
| What events did the Pentatholon include? | footrace, discus throw, long jump, javelin throw, and wrestling. |
| The word architecture means what translated from Greek? | master builder |
| Where was the Olympic torch lit? | It was lit on the Altar of Zeus. |
| how did archimedes discover volume? | he filled up a bath tub and got in so it over flowed |
| what book did thucydides write? HINT: he eyewitness the event that the book is named for. | THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONESIAN WAR. |
| what kind of democracy did ancient greece have? | direct democracy |
| what kind of democracy does the united states have? | representative democracy |
| who did the greeks believed controlled natrual events? | the GODS.... gods... gods...gods |
| what did hippocrates teach his medical students to do for patients. | he taught them to take notes about them |
| what is one reason people were so intrested in athletics? | athletics gave greeks knowlidge of body movement |
| did cutting bodies open please the gods? | NOOOOO |
| what does geometry mean? | to measure land |
| what did hypatia teach in alexandria? | philosophy |
| what are the two categories of greek plays? | comedy and tragety |
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