Section 8.1
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Section 8.3
Section 8.4
Reading Checkpoints
100
Traditional stories about Gods and Heroes.
What are Myths
100
Greek thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything.
What are philosophers
100
What a person leaves behind when he or she dies.
What is legacy
100
A study of ball-like shapes called spheres and tubelike shapes called cylinders.
What is Solid geometry
100
The Rome conquered the Greek city-states in order to secure their shipping lanes from pirates.
Why did the Rome conquer the Greek city-states?
200
The earliest Greek stories.
What are epics
200
Professional teaches in ancient Greece.
Who are Sophists
200
A period when the Greek language and Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek peoples of southwest Asia.
What is Hellenistic Era
200
The most famous Greek mathematician.
Who is Euclid
200
The two types of drama the Greeks created were comedy and tragedy.
What types of drama did the Greeks create.
300
The highest mountain in Greece and where 12 important Gods and Goddesses lived.
What is Mount Olympus
300
A Sophists who was an Athenian sculptor whose true love was philosophy.
Who is Socrates
300
A country north of Greece.
What is Macedonia
300
The branch of mathematics that shows how points,lines,angles,and surfaces relate to one another.
What is Plane Geometry
300
The Greeks had rituals for their gods and goddesses because they wanted good fortune granted to them.
Why did the Greeks have rituals and festivals for their gods and goddesses.
400
A short tale that teaches a lesson.
What is a fable
400
A way of teaching developed by Socrates that used a question-and-answer format to force students to use their reason to see things for themselves.
What is Socratic Method
400
The Great leader and king of Macedonia and conquered the Persian Empire and Spread Greek culture throughout southwest Asia.
Who is Alexander the Great
400
People who study stars,plants, and other heavenly bodies.
What are Astronomers
400
The most important type of building in Greece is a Temple.
What is the most important type of building in Greece?
500
A story told by actors who pretended to be characters in a story.
What are dramas
500
The greatest historian of the ancient world.
Who is Thucydides
500
City and major seaport in northern Egypt in the Nile River delta.
What is Alexandra
500
A mathematician who lived in Alexandria.
Who is Hypatia
500
Thucydides viewed war and politics as the activites of human beings,not gods.
How did Thucydides view war and politics?
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