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Journey Across Time- S.S.
Unit 2, chapter 5, section 4- Mattlin
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6th Grade
06/02/2006

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What did Archimedes do?
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He esablished the science of phtsica

He explained the lever and compound pulley
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What did Aristarchus do?
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He established that earth revolves around the sun
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What did Eratosthenes do?
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He figured out that the earth is round
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What did Euclid do?
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He wrote a book that organized information about geometry
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What did Hipparchus do?
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He created a system to explain how planets and stars move
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what did hippocrates do?
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He was teh first to write a medical code or good behavior
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What was Hippocrates known as?
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The father of medicine
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What did Hypatia do?
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He expanded knowledge or mathematics and astronomy
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What did Pythagoras do?
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He was the first to establish the principles of geometry
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Epicureanism is...
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A philosophy founded by Epicurus in Hellenistic Athens; it taught that happiness through the pursuit of pleasure was teh goal of life
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a astronomer is a...
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person who studies stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies
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Plane Geometry is a,,.
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branch of mathematics that shows how points, lines, angles, and surfaces relate to one another
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Stoicism is a...
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philosophy founded by Zeno in Hellenistic Athens; it taught that happiness came nmot from following emotions, but from following reason and doing one's duty.
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solid geometry is a...
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branch of mathematics that studies spheres and cylinders
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Why did Alexandria attract so many scholors?
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Alexandria had a big library in which it held many books snd other forms of writing.
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