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100

Created a system to explain how the planets and stars move.

Hipparchus

100

mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model.

Aristarchus of Samos

100

What Greek invention was used to heat temples in the winter?

Central heating

100

What Greek mathematician discovered a theorem to find the sides of a right triangle?

Pythagoras

200

the greatest mathematician and astronomer of her time

hypatia

200

earliest of the ten Attic orators, and an important figure in fifth-century Athenian political and intellectual life.

antiphon

200

What Greek scientist classified animals according to their characteristics?

Aristotle

200

 What famous textbook on geometry did the Greek Mathematician Euclid write?

Elements

300

Figured out that the earth is round.

Eratosthenes

300

Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse.

Archimedes

300

What Greek invention was used to grind grain into flour?

Watermill

300

Did the Greeks know algebra?

Yes the Greeks created a geometric algebra

400

Wrote a book that organized information about geometry.

Euclid

400

 Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.

Theon of Alexandria

400

What Greek invention was used to move water up a hill?

Archimedes screw

400

Was there a Greek god of math?

yes

500

First to establish the principles of geometry. 

Pythagoras

500

Considered the father of geometry, he is chiefly known for the Elements treatise

Euclid

500

wrote a book that is still used as the basis for the study of plane geometry.

Euclid 

500

What type of math did the Greeks use?

geometry

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