Greek Contribution to LL
English writing, punctuation and paragraphing all are based on what writing?
What is Greek writing?
A Greek named Hippocrates changed the way the other Greek's thought about what?
What is health and medicine?
Greek culture produced the first ______ to become famous from being a mathematician.
What is women?
By studying the anatomy, or body structure of animals the Greeks also learned about the _______ body.
What is human?
Many modern sports have their roots in Ancient _______.
What is Greece?
The Greek's also invented What that is very commonly used today.
What is drama?
For centenaries the Greek's believed that gods and goddesses controlled what events?
What is Natural?
Greek mathematician, Euclid's Geometry textbook was the basis for __________ Geometry for 2000 years.
What is teaching?
The Greeks also discovered that some plants are useful for ___________.
What is medicine?
The first Olympics were held in 776 BCE to honor _______.
What are the Greek Gods?
What two words from the Greek alphabet made the whole word telephone?
What is "far off" and "voice
Greek's believed people getting sick was what from the gods?
What is punishment?
Greek's loved reasoning, they looked for logical answers to ____ all the time.
What is nature?
Greek philosopher, Aristotle, was the first to organize the groups of animals from ones with ________ and ones without.
What is a backbone?
During the opening ceremony, an athlete lights the Olympic Flame. This custom comes from a time when the first Olympic Athletes lit a fire on the ________ ___ ________.
What is the Alter of Zeus?
What two words from the Greek alphabet made the whole word alphabet.
What is Alpha and Beta?
Hippocrates believed that diseases where caused by what?
What is natural causes?
A scientist named Pythagoras thought ___ was the key to understanding nature.
What is numbers?
Greeks believed that cutting open the human body would offend the _________.
What are gods?
Many modern Olympic events grew out of Greek ________.
What are contests?
Modern historians still are following in the footsteps of the Greek historian known as what?
What is the "father of history"?
Hippocrates was often called what?
What is the "father of modern medicine"?
Geometry comes from the Greek word that means _____?
What is "To measure land"?
Several centuries after Hippocrates, medical students were able to name and describe the ____________ inside the human body.
What are organs.
One example of Greek contest is the Pentathlon, which meant ________________________.