Social Studies 5:2/3

Study of nature and meaning of life; comes from the Greek word for "love of wisdom."

• sophist

• philosophy

• aristotle

• herodotus

Way of teaching developed by Socrates that used a question and answer format to force students to use their reason to see things for themselves.

• Sophist

• Aristotle

• Socratic Method

• Hellenistic Era

Professional teacher in ancient Greece, believed that people should use knowledge to improve themselves and developed the art of public speaking and debate.

• Herodotus

• Sophist

• Aristotle

• Philosopher

Was a student of Plato. Wrote 200 books that ranged form government to the planet/stars.

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Herodotus

What a person leaves behind when he/she dies.

• legacy

• philosophy

• land

• drama

Thinker who seeks wisdom and ponders questions about life.

• Philospher

• Sophist

• Hellenistic Era

• Socrates

He attacked the Greek city-states at the Battle of Chaeronea and then controlled most of Greece.

• Phillip the II

• Heordotus

• Aristotle

• Nebuchadnezzar

He wrote the history of the Persian Wars. He tried to separate fact from legend.

• Phillip the II

• Sophist

• Herodotus

• Socrates

Period when the Greek language and Greek ideas spread to the non-Greek peoples of southwest Asia.

• Hellenstic Era

• Philosophy

• War Time

• Legacy

The scientific method used by Aristotle when studying science problems was ________________.

• observations

• history

• philosophy

• death