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Ancient Greece

• Early Greek thought and philosophers

Science and Religion in Schools Project - Unit 3b
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Map of Greece
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Map of Ancient Greece
Map from home.triad.rr.com/warfford/ancient/grkmai
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Timeline of key figures
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Key facts about ancient Greece

• The Greeks invented democracy which means rule
  by the people (demospeople)
• This form of government dates from the 7th
  century BC when Greece was a mass of separate,
  independent city-states such as Athens. The
  Olympic Games were held every 4 years and date
  from the 8th century BC.
• Greek philosophy is world famous.

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Early Greek achievements

• The ancient Greeks gave us
• Maths (Pythagoras)
• Irrigation (Thales)
• Atomic theory (Democritus)
• Maps and geography (Ptolemy)
• The concept of the elements
• The forces of attraction and repulsion
  (Empedocles)
• An awareness of condensation (Anaximenes)
• The notion of cause and effect and
• The methods of categorising all natural things
  (Aristotle)

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Philosophical questions

• Philosophy is concerned with two main questions

• What is the nature of reality?
• What can we know for certain?

The Greeks tried to answer these questions using
logic, reasoning and argument.
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Ancient Greece

• Early Greek thought and philosophers

Science and Religion in Schools Project - Unit 3b