Greece pt1 FLASHCARD

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How many major gods & goddesses did the ancient Greeks worship?

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12

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Where did the ancient Greeks think their gods & goddesses lived?

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Mount Olympus

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What were their stories/religious texts called?

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Myths

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Polytheism means...

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Belief in many gods

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Who am I? — The "father of history" who used his own thoughts & feelings to write The Histories about the Greco-Persian War.

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Herodotus

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Who am I? — I created the "Law of the Lever," which influenced the invention of the catapult.

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Archimedes

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Who am I? — My sculpture appears in the Parthenon, is located in Athens.

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Phidias

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Who am I? — I am another historian but I used interviews to write my book on the Great Peloponnesian War: The History of the Peloponnesian War.

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Thucydides

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Socrates named this type of debate after himself:

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Socratic Method

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Plato thought this about democracy:

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He did not like it; the smartest person should rule