review midterms

A baboon bone with markings discovered in Congo

• Ishango bone

• Lebombo bone

• Congo bone

• Paleolithic bone

The form of writing used in Mesopotamia

• attic

• hieroglyphic

• herodianic

• cuneiform

The number system used by the Mayans

• Sexagesimal

• Decimal

• Vigesimal

• Tetragesimal

One of the world's most famous mathematical artifacts

• Babylonian clay tablet

• Mesopotamian clay tablet

• Moscow tablet

• Plimpton 322 tablet

The inveterate Greek traveler and narrative historian who visited Egypt in 450 BCE

• Plato

• Ahmes

• Herodotus

• Aristotle

The oldest mathematical text from Ancient Egypt

• Moscow papyrus

• Rhind papyrus

• Plimpton papyrus

• Pushkin papyrus

Known as one of the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece

• Plato

• Diophantus

• Zeno

• Thales

Which of the following is NOT one of the three geometrical problems?

• trisecting the angle

• squaring the circle

• bisecting the triangle

• doubling the cube

He coined the maxim "Know thyself"

• Pythagoras

• Thales

• Menelaus

• Democritus

The proponent of a materialistic atomic doctrine

• Pythagoras

• Thales

• Plato

• Democritus