9.4 Legacy of Greece

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

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

a temple built on the Athenian acropolis to honor Athena

• Hippocrates

• Plato

• Archimedes

• Parthenon

philosopher from Athens who believed that people should never stop looking for knowledge

• Socrates

• Plato

• Hippocrates

• Archimedes

student of Socrates who created a school and wrote The Republic

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Hippocrates

• Archimedes

the greatest Greek doctor who founded the ideas about how a doctor should act

• Parthenon

• Archimedes

• Hippocrates

• Plato

a Greek scientist who invented a device (a screw) that could move water uphill

• Archimedes

• Hippocrates

• Parthenon

• Plato

_______________ was a philosopher who used questions to teach his students.

• Plato

• Socrates

• Archimedes

The greatest Greek doctor was Hippocrates. He was not a __________ , like Plato and Socrates.

• reason

• mathematician

• philosopher

student of Plato considered to be the greatest Greek thinker who believed that people should live a life of balance

• Archimedes

• Aristotle

• Hippocrates

• Parthenon