Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Legacy of Greece
- Science & Technology
- Advances in Medicine
- Hippocrates was "Father of Medicine" and saw body as sum.
- Geography: Knowledge about the world
- Cartography: Study and making of maps prominent at this time
- Math Discoveries
- Pythagoras & Euclid were important mathematicians. Pythagreon Theorem and basics of geometry.
- Advances in Tools
- Alarm clock, water mill, odometer
- Culture
- Olympic Games: Series of sports competitions
- First held back in Olympia in ancient Greece.
- Philosophy: Search for Knowledge & Wisdom
- Socrates, Plato, & Aristotle were important philosophers.
- Architecture: Structures & Buildings
- One of the wonders of ancient Greece, The Parthenon.
- History: Written down records
- Herodotus first to write down historical accounts for the sake of history.
- Government
- Extended Citizenship
- Peisistratus extended rights to non-landowners.
- Written Laws
- Draco first to write laws for Athens.
- Creation of Democracy
- Democracy born in Athens
- Fairer Court System
- Solon made it so anyone could seek justice for someone who illegally wronged.
- Arts
- Art for Visual Beauty
- Minoans first to use art strictly for looks and not religion.
- Drama: Plays of tragedies & comedy
- Aeschylus tragedies first known plays
- Poems used to tell knowledgable stories
- Homer's Poems of the Illiad and Odessey
- Sculptures to depict important people
- Huge Athena sculpture in the Parthenon