Social Studies 5-2 Flashcards

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Pythagoras

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People that believed that all relationships in the world could be expressed in numbers.

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Philosophy

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Means the “love of wisdom”

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Philosophers

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Greeks that thought the human mind could understand everything.

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Socrates

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A teacher that we know about do to his writings of his students.

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Sophists

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Professional teachers who traveled from city to city.

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Plato

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A student of Socrates who thought that democracy was not a good system of government.

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Socratic Method

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A method on teaching that forces students to use their reason to answer questions.

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Herodotus

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A man considered the “father of history” because he tried to separate fact from legend.

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Aristotle

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Plato’s best student who had his own school called the Lyceum.

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Thucydides

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A man that many historians consider the greatest historian of the ancient world.

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