Chapter 9 Ancient Greece People
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Plato | Ancient Greek philosopher and discple of Socrates who was one of the most famous thinkers of ancient Greece. |
| King Minos | Legendary King of the Minoan civilazation in Crete. |
| Homer | Ancient Greek poet who composed two poems. the Iliad and the Odyssey, about the Trojan Wars. |
| Pericles | Ancient Athenian leader who strove to make Athens the center of artand literature and who was responsible for buliding the Parthenon. |
| Socrates | Ancient Greek philosopher who devolped an approch to teaching based on asking questions. |
| Aristotle | Ancient Greek philospher and student of Plato who wrote more then 170 books. |
| Alexander | Known as"Alexander the Great" the king of Macedonia who conquered a vast empire in Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
| Hippocrates | Ancient Greek doctor who is often called the "father of medicine'. |
| Archimedes | Scientist of the Hellenistic Age who was the first person to explain how leavers work. |
| Pythagoras | Ancient Geek philospher and mathematician whose ideas led to the field of geometry |
| Euclid | a Greek mathematician who devolped the system of plane geometry. |
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