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Discovery Middle School Chapter 31 The Legacy of Ancient Greece

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Archimedes   A Greek thinker who discovered volume.  
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Herodotus   An historical writer who is called the "father of history".  
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Thucydides   He wrote about the wars between Athens and Sparta and is considered one of the greatest historians of the ancient world.  
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Hippocrates   A Greek man who believed that diseases had natural causes. Called the "father of modern medicine".  
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Pythagoras   A Greek scientist who believed that numbers were the key to understanding nature.  
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Euclid   A Greek mathematician who wrote a geometry textbook and was the basis for teaching geometry for 2000 years.  
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Hypatia   She was a highly respected mathematician and philosopher.  
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Aristotle   A Greek philosopher who was fascinated by living things. He classified them as "those with and those without backbones."  
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Latitude   A measure of how far a place on Earth is from the equator.  
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Longitude   A measure of how far a place on Earth is from an imaginary line (Prime Meridian)that runs between the North and South Poles on the globe.  
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