Ch.31 The Legacy of Ancient Greece

Hippocrates was an important Greek doctor.  Which statement would he most likely have made? 

• “You are sick because the gods are angry at you.” 
• “I will operate on your spine.”
• “You must let me try this experiment on you.”
• “I observe that you got sick after eating that meat.”

With which field are Pythagoras and Euclid associated? 

• Chemistry
• Geometry
• Linguistics
• Literature

Because the ancient Greeks developed democracy, which of the following is part of American politics today? 

• A council of elders
• Juries of citizens
• A national religion
• A symbolic royalty

What would Socrates have liked about the way Greeks approached their studies?  

• They asked a lot of questions
• They worked in large groups 
• They  believed in the gods
• They built machines to help them

Greece contributed to our language today.  The word geography comes from the Greek words meaning…  

• Classifying plants
• Classifying animals
• Writing about Earth
• Writing about the stars

This picture of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC shows that  

• Americans value the teaching of ancient Greek religion
• Americans use stone from Greece to build public buildings
• Americans are influenced by ancient Greek architecture
• Americans use ancient Greek architecture to design homes

To which of the following did the Greeks make major contributions? 

• theater and religion
• religion and medicine
• cooking and medicine
• language and government

Ancient Greeks looked to math and science for logical answers to their questions about nature.  Often the ideas from one field contributed to understanding in another.  To which field of study would the efforts of this man not contribute? 

• Geometry
• Astronomy
•  Geography
• Biology

Today, people who become a doctor take the __________________________ Oath.

• Pentathlon
• Pythagoras
• Hipparchus
• Hippocratic

__________________ comes from the Greek word “star”.

• Geometry
• Geography
• Astronomy
• Architecture