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BCA Chapter 3 World History Study Guide- Greece
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History
9th Grade
09/15/2012

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Aristole
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He was a philosopher
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Socrates
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Answered everything in questions
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Eratosthenes
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Figured out the circumference of the Earth and figured out longitude and latitude
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Euclid
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Father of Math
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Hippocrates
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Father of Medicene
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Sophocles
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Was a play-book writer of tragedy
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Thucydides
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Was also a famous historian
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Thales
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He also was a philosopher
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Sparta
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Very militaristic; from age 7 males didnt live at home; lived in barracks Their government was oligarchy (Ruled by few)
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Athens
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Their government was democracy (Ruled by people) they were vary big on art,science,math,drama,philosophy,etc.
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Alexander the Great
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He let the people of Greece keep their culture/language even after he took them over. Fought in battle with his soldiers.
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Pericles
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General and statesman of Athens
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Greece
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Greece was divided into two city-state/Polis, Athens and Sparta. The development of Greece was like one side developed into a war-like city-state and the other side turned into a cultural city-state
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Stoics
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Was the civilazation after Sparta
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Epicureans
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Was the civilazation after Athens
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