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Ancient Greece
Test 1 Part 2
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History
Undergraduate 1
06/08/2010

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Birthplace of Democracy
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Athens
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Made law public in Athens
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Draco
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"law giver"
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Solon
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Father of Democracy
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Cleisthenes
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Real Power of Athens belonged to the.....
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Archons
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All citizens could participate excluding women and slaves
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"Father of Science"-geometry
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Thales
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Atomic theory.. father of modern science
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Democritus
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any subject for which there was a popular demand
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Sophists
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His teachings were written down by his student, Plato. He was the first to make a clear distinction between the body and soul, placing a higher value on the soul. He had a noble life, and his calm acceptance of death made him a model for other philosophers to follow.
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Socrates
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founded a school of philosophy called the Academy. The Academy was held in a grove of trees that the Greek hero Academus lived. It was considered the first university by many people.
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Plato
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follower of Plato. Taught Alexander the great.
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Aristotle
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Pythagorean Theorem
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Pythagoras
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medicine
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hippocrates
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father of history
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Herodotus
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author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, father of "scientific history" because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods
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Thucydides
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