Democritus of Abdera

Democritus was anancient Greek philosopher.

• True

• False

Democritus died according to authoritative sources around the age of one hundred.

• True

• False

Democritus has been pointed out as the founder of atomism.

• True

• False

According to the atomistic doctrine, the Universe is composed of innumerable corpuscles or atoms of imperceptible magnitude and substantially identical, indivisible .

• True

• False

"atom" means, in Greek_________________.

• imperfection

• inseparable

• world

• soul

Democritus was born in

• Miletus

• Abdera

• Albania

Leucippus, the founder of

• Aesthetics

• mechanism

• atomism

Democritus was somewhat younger than his famous fellow citizen____________________.

• Aristotle

• Protagoras

• Plato

Democritus made long study journeys through __________________.

• Egypt and America

• Asia and Rome

• Egypt and Asia

The theory of Democritus held that everything is composed of _________.

• atoms

• numbers

• shapes