World history - Chapter 6, Topic 7&8

Question 1

What system of reasoning did the Greeks develop?

Answer 1

Logic.

Question 2

Who was Socrates?

Answer 2

Socrates was a man who wandered Athens drawing people into conversations.

Question 3

Who created the Socratic Method?

Answer 3

Socrates.

Question 4

What was the Socratic Method used for?

Answer 4

The Socratic Method was used for teaching through questing.

Question 5

What did Plato create?

Answer 5

The Academy.

Question 6

Who created The Academy?

Answer 6

Plato.

Question 7

What is The Academy?

Answer 7

The Academy is a special school in Athens for teaching Philosophy.

Question 8

Who founded Stoicism?

Answer 8

Zeno.

Question 9

Who is the “Father of History”?

Answer 9

Herodotus.

Question 10

Who wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 10

Thucydides.

Question 11

Who wrote the first known autobiography?

Answer 11

Xenophon.

Question 12

What was the book The Republic?

Answer 12

The Republic was Plato’s view of the perfect society ruled by Philosophers.

Question 13

Who wanted to understand the nature of the universe?

Answer 13

Thales.

Question 14

Who thought the universe was made up of Atoms?

Answer 14

Democritus.

Question 15

Who was the most famous natural scholar in Greek history?

Answer 15

Aristotle.

Question 16

Who thought that numbers were the key to the universe?

Answer 16

Pythagoras.

Question 17

Who is the “Father of Geometry”?

Answer 17

Euclid.

Question 18

Who is considered to be the founder of medical science?

Answer 18

Hippocrates.

Question 19

What is the oath that doctors follow by today?

Answer 19

The Hippocratic Oath.

Question 20

Where was the center of medical science?

Answer 20

Alexandria, Egypt.

Question 21

Who stated that the brain was the center of our nervous system?

Answer 21

Herophilus.

Question 22

Who defeated Athens and Thebes at the battle of Chaeronea?

Answer 22

Philip II of Macedonia.

Question 23

What else did Philip II want to do, but was assassinated at his daughter’s wedding?

Answer 23

He wanted to invade Persia to finally defeat them.

Question 24

Who was Philip’s 20 year old son?

Answer 24

Alexander.

Question 25

Where did Alexander receive his education?

Answer 25

Aristotle.

Question 26

How long did Alexander and his men fight for?

Answer 26

From 336-326 B.C

Question 27

How did Alexander die?

Answer 27

He fell ill with a fever and died in June.

Question 28

What was the “Greek-like” way a life?

Answer 28

Hellenistic Culture.

Question 29

Who was one of Alexander’s generals that took over control of Egypt?

Answer 29

Ptolemy.

Question 30

Who was the greatest scientist in the Hellenistic period?

Answer 30

Archimedes.

Question 31

What was the union of Greek and Roman culture?

Answer 31

Classical Civilization or Greco-Roman

Question 32

What was the trade route that connected people from the Mediterranean Sea to China?

Answer 32

The Silk Road.