Greek Philosophy And History

Question 1

This comes from the Greek word for “love of wisdom”

Answer 1

Philosophy

Question 2

These people believed the human Mind can understand anything

Answer 2

Philosophers

Question 3

Pythagoras

Answer 3

Taught his pupils that the universe followed the same laws that governed music and numbers

Question 4

Who were the sophists

Answer 4

Professional teachers
They believed students should use their time to improve themselves
Did not believe gods influenced people
They rejected the concept of absolute right or wrong

Question 5

Socrates

Answer 5

He is a sophist

Invented the Socratic method

Question 6

Socratic method

Answer 6

Pointed questions to use reason and to see things for themselves

Question 7

Plato

Answer 7

Socrates student

Wrote The Republic-

Question 8

What is the Repubic

Answer 8

Explains his vision of government.
Democracy was not a good system.
Divided into 3 groups. -philosophers/kings, warriors, the rest of the people

Question 9

Aristotle

Answer 9

Platos student
Wrote more than 200 books
Opened the school called Lyceum
Taught the golden mean

Question 10

Golden mean

Answer 10

A person should do nothing in excess

Question 11

Aristotle divided the govt into 3 types

Answer 11

Govt by one person -monarch like king, tyrant
Govt by a few people-aristocracy or oligarchy
Govt by many people- democracy

Question 12

Herodotus

Answer 12

Wrote the history of Persian wars. He tried to separate fact from legend
Father of history

Question 13

Thucydides

Answer 13

Greatest historian of the ancient world

Wrote the Peloponnesiam war.