Modern Language and Literature
Greek Contributions to Modern Medicine
Greek Contributions to Modern Astronomy
Greek Contribution to Modern Geography
Greek Contributions to Modern Mathematics
100
Herodotus
Who is known as the "father of history"?
100
Gods and Godesses
Who did the Greeks believe that controlled natural events, including health and sickness?
100
"star"
Astronomy comes from what Greek word?
100
"writing about the Earth"
The word "geography" comes from what Greek meaning?
100
Pythagoras
Who believed that numbers were the key to understanding nature?
200
alpha and beta
The word "alphabet" comes from what two first letters of the Greek alphabet?
200
Hippocrates
Who changed the way people thought about health and medicine?
200
Aristarchus
What Greek scientist was the first person to suggest that the Earth moves around the sun?
200
Longitude and latitude
To describe where places were, mapmakers developed a system of what?
200
"to measure land'
"Geometry" comes from the Greek word that means what?
300
"Far off" (tel) and "voice" (phone)
The word "telephone" is made up of what Greek words?
300
He taught his students to carefully observe their patients and write down what they saw.
What did Hippocrates teach his students?
300
Allowed scientists to accurately predict eclipses from the moon
What did Hipparchus theories allow later for scientists to accurately do?
300
Ptolemy
Who wrote a book called "Geography" that listed over 8,000 places?
300
How much seed to buy for planting a field or how to lay out a city.
Using geometry could figure out what?
400
Grammar, punctuation, and paragraphing
What three things are all based on Greek writing?
400
"father of medicine"
What is Hippocrates often called?
400
Because many Greeks believed that the Earth was the center of the universe
Why were the Greeks upset about Aristarchus's idea of the Earth moving around the sun?
400
Showed how to represent the curved Earth on flat surface.
Ptolemy's book also contained maps. What did the maps show?
400
Shapes and spaces.
What else could Egyptians measure?
500
Drama, tragedy, and comedy
What three things did Greeks invent?
500
To be honest, to preserve life, and to keep information about their patients private.
Today, people who become doctors promise to take the Hippocratic Oath. What is the Oath?
500
Over 850 stars
How many stars did Hipparchus name?
500
The positions of stars.
What did astronomers record?
500
Euclid.
Who's geometry text book became the basis for the teaching of geometry for more than 2,000 years?
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