Ancient Greece Achievements

What were the achievements of ancient Greece in art and architecture?

• Developing the Scientific Method

• Inventing the wheel

• Creating realistic designs on pots

• Building beautiful temples with columns

Who were some of the greatest philosophers in ancient Greece?

• Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet

• Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael

• Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein

• Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

What were some of the achievements in theater in ancient Greece?

• Creating tragedies and comedies

• Developing the theory of relativity

• Discovering electricity

• Inventing the printing press

Who were some of the greatest poets in ancient Greece?

• Milton, Keats, Byron

• Frost, Poe, Whitman

• Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Dickinson

• Homer, Sappho, Aesop

Who were the most famous historians in ancient Greece?

• Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon

• Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander

• Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, Charlemagne

• Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I

What were some achievements in math, science, and medicine in ancient Greece? Choose all answers that apply.

• Determining the planets revolve around the sun

• Creating the Hippocratic Oath

• Calculating the circumference of the earth

• Developing the Pythagorean Theorem of right triangles

The Hippocratic Oath, still taken by doctors today, is...

• a promise that they will not harm their patients

• a promise that they will only treat patients with Athenian citizenship

• a promise that they will obey the government

• a promise that they will continue learning about the latest advances in medicine

What did Greek philosophers do?

• Designed beautiful buildings with columns

• Encouraged others to use the power of thought to explain and understand life

• Wrote epic poems like the Iliad and the Odyssey

• Calculated the circumference of the earth

Who did Socrates teach?

• Plato

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Aristotle

• Isaac Newton

What was the purpose of Aesop's fables?

• Promote healthy eating

• Teach life lessons

• Encourage exercise

• Entertain children