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Warm -up Copy HW Please take out your connection packet and a pen or pencil Today’s first presenter can set up
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Essential Question How can societies use what they learned from the past?
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Greek Astronomers Eratosthenes- said the earth was round -measure the distance around the earth Aristarchus- said the sun was the center of the universe
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Greek Mathematicians Archimedes of Syracuse-figured out the value of Pi -great inventor (levers) -solid geometry Euclid- wrote a book called Elements, which explains plane geometry (lines, points
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Medicine Hippocrates: Father of medicine Approached being a doctor like being a scientist Hippocratic Oath-be ethical (do what is right) Other Greek doctors… Discovered how the heart pumped blood to the body Discovered the brain was the center of the nervous system
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Geography Comes from the Greek words “writing about the earth” Herodotus –created first map of the known world Ptolemy-wrote Geographia which listed 8,000 places around the world -developed latitude and longitude
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Biology Study of plants and animals-helped doctors 600 B.C.E. Each event in the natural world has a cause and effect Aristotle: classified plants and animals
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Closure List three things you learned about Ancient Greece and how they can be useful to our world today!
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