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Question 1

Golden age of Greece

Answer 1

500 to 350 B.C.

Question 2

philosophy

Answer 2

LOVED WISDOM AND CREATED MANY NEW IDEAS

Question 3

Sophists

Answer 3

Group of philosophers who traveled from polis to polis and made a living by teaching.

Question 4

rhetoric

Answer 4

The art of public speaking and debate. They rejected the idea of absolute right or wrong.

Question 5

Socrates

Answer 5

He lived in Athens and spent most of his time teaching. He believed in absolute truth. He also loved philosphy.

Question 6

Plato

Answer 6

Teacher that founded a school in Athens called the Academy.

Question 7

The Republic

Answer 7

Socrates made this plan for an ideal society and government.

Question 8

Aristotle

Answer 8

He started a school where he taught his students the “golden mean”, that people should live moderately in the middle.

Question 9

Aristotle’s view of government

Answer 9

He thought monarchy, oligarchy and democracy were all needed.

Question 10

Herodotus

Answer 10

Wrote a history of the Persian wars.

Question 11

Thales of Miletus

Answer 11

Born in mid-600 B.C. Thales studied astronomy and mathematics.

Question 12

Pythagoras

Answer 12

He believed that all relationships could be expressed in numbers.

Question 13

Hippocrates

Answer 13

A physician who is regarded as the “father of medicine”. He believed diseases came from natural causes.