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Chapter 11 Greek Cultural Contributions
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7th Grade
11/28/2012

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ORACLES
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Priests or priestesses who could communicate with the gods
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PROPHECY
Definition
Statement predicting the future
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SOLILOQUY
Definition
Talk in which personal thoughts & feelings are expressed to audience
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TRAGEDIES
Definition
Stories about suffering
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COMEDIES
Definition
Stories that are humorous and have happy endings
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PANCRATIUM
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Combination of boxing & extreme wrestling
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PENTATHLON
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Made up of 5 events (Running, Jumping, Wrestling, Discus, & Javelin Throwing)
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HERODUTUS
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A) "Father of History"
B) Read his accounts of Persian Wars in between events at the Olympic Games
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PHILOSOPHY
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"Love of Wisdom"
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SOCRATES
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Philosopher & teacher who tried to teach people how to think so they could learn the truth
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PLATO
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A)One of Socrates' students
B)Wrote down Socrates' teachings & speeches
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SOCRATIC METHOD
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Step-by-step questioning helping someone to arrive at a truth/conclusion
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ARISTOTLE
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A)One of Plato's smartest students
B)Last of great 3 philosophers
C)Made major contributions to science and Western Civilization
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CLASSIFICATION
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To group together plants and animals that are similar
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HYPOTHESIS
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Possible explanation of an event based on observation
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EUCLID
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Collected & organized all existing knowledge about geometry
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HIPPOCRATES
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A)"Father of Medicine"
B)Created Hippocratic Oath (rules that doctors today still follow)
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