WHI SOL People To Know (2)

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Greek tyrant whose name is synonymous with the words 'harsh and severe' because of the laws he wrote.

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Draco

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Led the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt and received the Ten Commandments from Yahweh.

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Moses

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King of Macedon who conquered most of Greece and was the father of Alexander the Great.

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Phillip II

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Greek "Father of Medicine"

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Hippocrates

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Unified Spain and expelled the Muslim Moors and Jews.

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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Greek philosopher who founded the Academy and wrote the Republic.

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Plato

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Wrote Greek tragedies such as Oedipus Rex.

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Sophocles

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Greek scientist who calculated the value of pi and developed the pulley and lever.

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Archimedes

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Another writer of Greek tragedies was: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Socrates, Virgil

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Aeschylus

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Wrote the History of the Peloponnesian War.

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Thucydides