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| use of colomns influence building style today:example:parthenon temple for goddess athena |
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| use of colomns influence building style today:example:parthenon temple for goddess athena |
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| sculpture life like statues That showed action and balance pottery black paint on red pottery |
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| democracy-rule by the people trial by jury |
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| herodotos "the father of history" wrote about the Persian war |
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epics long story poems (homer wrote the Illiad and the odyssey) myth-stories That explain something in nature
a forgoten story that usually is religious or supernatural that was once believed to be true. Fables-animal stories that teaches a lesson |
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| Greeks invented the rules of geometry. Euclid a mathmetician wrote a geometry text called elements |
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| the first Olympics held in Greece, in 776 b.c. Held for the glory of Greece and its gods. Competitions included wrestling and footraces |
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| philosophy originated in Greece during 500s b.c. Comes from greek word meaning love of wisdom.Great philosophers Socrates,plato,Aristole |
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Democritus- discovered everything was made of tiny particles called atoms
Hippocrates-the father of medicine (studied how diseases result from natural causes) |
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| Greeks were the first to write dramas |
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