OLQHS 6th grade social studies Sec. 5-2 study guide
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 philosophy | This word comes from the Greek word for "love of wisdom," |
| philosophers | Greek thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything. |
| Pyrhagoras | Greek philosopher that taught his pupils that the universe followed the same laws that governed music and numbers. |
| Sophists | Professional teachers in ancient Greece who traveled from city to city teaching. They believed that there is no absolute right or wrong. |
| Socrates | Athenian sculptor whose true love was philosophy. |
| Socratic method | Way of teaching invented by Socrates that is still used today. He asked pointed questions to force his pupils to use their reason and to see things for themselves. |
| absolute truth or absolute right and wrong | A belief of Socrates. |
| Plato | One of Socrates students |
| The Republic | Written by Plato |
| Rebel against the state | In 399 BC the leaders of Athens accused Socrates of teaching young Athenians to do this. |
| Philosopher kings | Plato believed this group should rule society. |
| Golden mean | Idea Aristotle taught his pupils that a person should do nothing in excess. The should not eat too much or to little but just enough to stay well. |
| Aristotle | Studied and compared the governments of 158 different places to find the best form of government. |
| Politics | Book written by Aristotle that divided governments into 3 types. He believed mixed government was best. |
| Herodotus | Wrote the history of the Persian wars. |
| "Father of history" | Herodotus was called this by western historians. |
| Thucydides | Wrote the History of the Peloponnesia War and was considered by many historians to be the greatest historian of the ancient world. |
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