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6th Grade
01/19/2016

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Architecture
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use of colomns influence building style today:example:parthenon temple for goddess athena
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Architecture
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use of colomns influence building style today:example:parthenon temple for goddess athena
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Art
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sculpture life like statues That showed action and balance pottery black paint on red pottery
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Government
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democracy-rule by the people trial by jury
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History
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herodotos "the father of history" wrote about the Persian war
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Literature
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epics long story poems (homer wrote the Illiad and the odyssey) myth-stories That explain something in nature 

a forgoten story that usually is religious or supernatural that was once believed to be true. Fables-animal stories that teaches a lesson 

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Mathmetics
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Greeks invented the rules of geometry. Euclid a mathmetician wrote a geometry text called elements
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Olympics
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the first Olympics held in Greece, in 776 b.c. Held for the glory of Greece and its gods. Competitions included wrestling and footraces
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Philosophy
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philosophy originated in Greece during 500s b.c. Comes from greek word meaning love of wisdom.Great philosophers Socrates,plato,Aristole
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Science
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Democritus- discovered everything was made of tiny particles called atoms 

Hippocrates-the father of medicine (studied how diseases result from natural causes)

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Theater
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Greeks were the first to write dramas
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