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Question | Answer |
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Who is confucius? | Chinese teacher of morals that came to embody the core of confucianism. |
Who is Pythagoras? | Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematican whose ideas led to the field of geomatry. |
Who is Plato? | Ancient Greek philosopher and disciple of Socrates who was one of the most famous thinkers of ancient greece. |
Who is Socrates? | Ancient Greek philosopher who developed an approach to teaching based on asking questions. |
Who is Archimedes? | Scientist of the Hellenistic Age who was the first person to explain how levers work. |
Who is Hapshepsut? | Queen of ancient Egypt who proclamied herself pharoah and ruled during the New Kingdom. |
Who is King Menes? | Lengendary ancient egyptian king who is credited with uniting lower and upper Egypt. |
Who is Shi Huangdi? | Quin who created the first unified chinese emperor he started building the Great Wall of China. |
Who is Euclid? | Greek mathmatician who developed the system of plane geometry. |
Who is Aristotle? | Ancient greek philosopher and student of Plato who wrote more than 170 books. |
Who is Homer? | Ancient Greek poet who composed two poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, about the Trojan war |
Who is Hippocrates? | Ancient Greek doctor who is often called the " father of medicine." |
Who is King Minos? | Lengendary king of the Minoan civilzation in Crete. |
Who is Pericles? | Ancient Athenian leader who strove to make Athens the center of art and literature and who was responsible for building the Parthenon. |
Who is Han Gaozu? | First ruler of the Han Dynasty who lifted the ban on books in China. |
What is a philosopher? | A person who studies truth and knowledge. |
What is the Hellenistic Age? | A period of time when Ancient Greek and Asian cultures mixed. |
What is papyrus? | A plant whose stems are used to make a kind of paper. |
What is the Rosetta Stone? | A stone on which a passage was written in three languages: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and a form of Egyptian cursive writing. |
What are hieroglyphics? | A fotm of writing based on pictures. |
What is democracy? | A goverment by the people. |
What is Aristocracy? | A goverment controlled by a few weathly people. |
What are pyramids? | A large stone building to serve as a house for the dead. |
What is Confucianism? | A way of thinking and living based on the teachings of Confucius. What they believed in: respect for all people, palanced desion, respect for all teachers, parents, and ruler. |
What is Daoism? | The belief in finding the "way" or the dao, of the univberse. What they believed in: respect and work and live in harmony. |