I can read/ Socrates

Question 1

Artisans?

Answer 1

A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.

Question 2

Veritable?

Answer 2

Used as an intensifier, often to qualify a metaphor.

Question 3

Chieftains?

Answer 3

The leader of a people or clan.

Question 4

Minstrel?

Answer 4

A medieval singer.

Question 5

Reformer?

Answer 5

A person who makes changes to something in order to improve it.

Question 6

Patron?

Answer 6

A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, or activity.

Question 7

Podgy?

Answer 7

(Of a person or part of their body) somewhat fat; chubby.

Question 8

Cross-fertilized?

Answer 8

Stimulate the development of (something) with an exchange of ideas or information.

Question 9

Philosophy?

Answer 9

The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.

Question 10

Maintained?

Answer 10

State something strongly to be the case; assert.

Question 11

What type of writing did the inventors of the alphabet do?

Answer 11

Not just sacred texts and songs, but letters, contacts, and receipts.

Question 12

What type of people were the creators of the alphabet?

Answer 12

Merchants.

Question 13

In which ports did the creators of the alphabet live?

Answer 13

The ports of Tyre and Sidon.

Question 14

Who invented the alphabet?

Answer 14

The Phoenicians.

Question 15

What did wild tribes trade with The Phoenicians?

Answer 15

Furs, and precious stones in exchange for tools, cooking pots, and colored cloth.

Question 16

What were The Phoenicians known for?

Answer 16

Their craftsmanship.

Question 17

What temple did The Phoenicians help construct?

Answer 17

Solomon’s.

Question 18

What was the most popular of the Phoenician goods?

Answer 18

Dyed cloth, especially the purple.

Question 19

What did many of the Phoenicians do on foreign shores?

Answer 19

Stayed on their trading posts and built towns.

Question 20

Where did the Phoenicians travel?

Answer 20

Africa, Spain, and southern Italy.

Question 21

When was Socrates put to death?

Answer 21

About 2,400 years ago.

Question 22

What was Socrates like?

Answer 22

Snub-nosed, podgy, shabby, and a bit strange.

Question 23

What did Socrates ask Euthydemus?

Answer 23

Whether being deceitful counted as being immoral.

Question 24

In what way was Socrates different from other philosophers?

Answer 24

He refused to write anything down.

Question 25

Who is the reason we have some idea of what Socrates was like?

Answer 25

His star pupil Plato.

Question 26

What literary giant was Plato compared to?

Answer 26

Shakespeare

Question 27

What idea do people believe is Plato’s rather than Socrates’?

Answer 27

The world is not what it seems and there is a significant difference between appearance and reality.