Social Studies 5-2 Flashcards
Pythagoras
People that believed that all relationships in the world could be expressed in numbers.
Philosophy
Means the “love of wisdom”
Philosophers
Greeks that thought the human mind could understand everything.
Socrates
A teacher that we know about do to his writings of his students.
Sophists
Professional teachers who traveled from city to city.
Plato
A student of Socrates who thought that democracy was not a good system of government.
Socratic Method
A method on teaching that forces students to use their reason to answer questions.
Herodotus
A man considered the “father of history” because he tried to separate fact from legend.
Aristotle
Plato’s best student who had his own school called the Lyceum.
Thucydides
A man that many historians consider the greatest historian of the ancient world.