World History 1: SOL Review - Artists and Thinkers (Flashcards)

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Greek playwright. Considered the 'Father of Tragedy'

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Aeschylus

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Martyr during the Northern Renaissance. Wrote Utopia.

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Sir Thomas More

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Humanist writer during the Renaissance. Wrote sonnets.

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Petrarch

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Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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Homer

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Greek scientist. Computed Pi and created the lever.

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Archimedes

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Painted ceiling of Sistine Chapel. Sculpted David (Renaissance)

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Michelangelo

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Greek mathematician. Developed a² + b² = c²

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Pythagoras

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Greek historians that wrote about the wars.

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Thucydides/Herodotus

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Greek playwright. Wrote Oedipus Rex.

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Sophocles

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Northern Renaissance writer. Wrote The Praise of Folly.

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Erasmus