Ancient Greek contributions
What are 2 contributions from Ancient Greek understanding of plants and animals?
studied body structure of animals, identified types of plants and their parts, descovered reproduction of seeds, descovered that plants make medicine, created groups for animals (back bone and no back bone) and divided plants into groups
Who beleived was the "greatest astromoner of the anceint world"?
Hipparchus
Who is the important guy from Ancient Greeks medicine?
Hippocrates
What are 2 contributions from Ancient Greek architecture?
Columns, pediments, public buildings, covered porches
What are 2 contributions of Ancient Greek astronomy?
The study of planets and stars, the Earth moved around the sun, named the stars, measured distance from Earth to sun, to moon, allows scientists to accuratly oredict eclipes of the moon
What is a contribution from Ancient Greek Geography?
map making, developed system of longitude and latidude, cerved Earth on maps
What are 2 contributions from Ancient Greek math?
Geometery, mersurment of shapes, numbers were the key to understand nature
Who is the important guy from Ancient Greek geopgraphy?
Ptolemy
Who is the important guy from Ancient Greek math?
Pythgoras
What is a contrubution from Ancient Greek theater?
Semi-circles with rows of seats, stories and plays
Who is Euclid?
The "Father of Geometry"
What are 2 contributions from Ancient Greek language and liturature?
alfabet comes from alfa and beta, greek roots, grammer, punctuation, paragraohing, drama, historical writings
What is a contribution from Ancient Greeks medicine?
diseases had a natural cause, they observed patients and wrote down observations, Hippocratic Oath
Who beleived that the Earth moved around the sun?
Aristarchus
Who is the important guy from Ancient Greek understanding of plants and animals?
Aristotle
What is the difference between Athenian democracy and our democracy?
Athenian:direct, only men born in Athens can be citizens Us:representitive,women and forgeign born can be citizens
Who is Socrates?
Greek philosopher
What are 2 contributions from Ancient Greeks understanding of the body?
named the organs, heart pumed blood, brain was center of nervous system
