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Plato
Aristotle
Archimedes
Democritus
Ptolemy
100
This is the country of Plato's birth and death.
What is Greece?
100
This is the country of Aristotle's birth and death.
What is Greece?
100
This is the country of his birth and death.
What is Italy?
100
This is his country of birth.
What is Thrace?
100
This is Ptolemy's country of birth and death.
What is Egypt?
200
This is the name of Plato's teacher, another great philosopher.
Who is Socrates?
200
He was a student of this famous Greek Philosopher.
Who is Plato?
200
He established a very accurate value for this number sometime shortened to 3.14.
What is pi?
200
Many consider him to be the "father" of this.
What is modern science?
200
His most famous work written about math and astronomy.
What is "The Amalgest?"
300
He served as a soldier during this war.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
Human beings therefore sat at the top of Aristotle's "scale of nature."
What is the scala naturae?
300
His invention that is used to pump and displace water.
What is the Archimedes' screw?
300
In addition to his philosophical and scientific contributions, he was a pioneer of this particular branch of mathematics.
What is geometry?
300
Ptolemy's theorized that the Earth was not flat, but instead this.
What is a sphere?
400
In 385 BCE, Plato founded this which became one of the first institutions in the Western World to offer higher learning.
What is The Academy in Athens?
400
The seasons regularly come and go. If you drop something, it falls to the ground. Aristotle explained these types of changes as the idea of these.
What are potentiality and actuality?
400
He used the displacement of water when taking a bath to calculate this formula.
What is the formula for density?
400
What we refer to as matter and space, Democritus called this.
What is "atoms and the void?"
400
Ptolemy's other work, named "Geography," is a collection of geographical coordinates of the part of the world during his time known as this.
What is the Roman Empire?
500
Plato's most famous work, that reflects on what it means to be a good person, how to live a good life, and what the best form of government is.
What is "The Republic?"
500
Aristotle defines this as "the knowledge of immaterial being," or of "being in the highest degree of abstraction."
What is metaphysics?
500
This was his exclamation when he discovered how to determine if crowns were made from pure gold.
What is “Eureka! Eureka!?"
500
This theory stated that matter was made up of small indivisible particles called atoms.
What is atomism?
500
Ptolemy has a crater on Mars and the Moon in his namesake. This is the name for those craters.
What is Ptolemaeus?