Legacy of Ancient Greece

The word alphabet stems from what two words used by ancient Greeks?

• delta and gamma

• alpha and beta

• writing and alphabet

• grammar

Which of these aspects of writing did we get from the Greeks?

• grammar

• punctuation

• paragraphing

• all of these

This form of government, where the citizens share the power, began in Greece.

• monarchy

• oligarchy

• democracy

• tyranny

Today, doctor's take an oath promising to help their patients based on this doctor's ethics...

• Hippocrates

• Ptolemy

• Aristarchus

• Herodotus

To discover the causes of illnesses, Hippocrates taught his students to observe and ...

• take notes

• run in circles

• invent

• reenact

The first textbook was on which subject?

• Social Studies

• Math

• Language Arts

• Science

The Greeks created new and improved methods for measuring shapes and spaces called...

• tangrams

• DBQs

• geometry

• algebra

A Greek astronomer was the first to observe that Earth...

• was flat

• moves (rotates) around the sun

• moves (rotates) around the planets

• has two moons

The study of the stars and sky is called...

• astronomy

• geometry

• language

• medicine

Ptolemy invented which system of lines to make it easier to locate places on a map?

• straight and curvy

• parallel and perpendicular

• longitude and latitude

• bathroom and lunch