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Some Cultural Contributions of Ancient Greece

Some Cultural Contributions of Ancient Greece. Mr. Koch World History A Forest Lake High School. Cultural Contributions. Alphabet/Literature Basis for our alphabet Stories still used today Wrote histories. Cultural Contributions. Art/Architecture Standards for Western civilization

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Some Cultural Contributions of Ancient Greece

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  1. Some Cultural Contributionsof Ancient Greece Mr. Koch World History A Forest Lake High School

  2. Cultural Contributions • Alphabet/Literature • Basis for our alphabet • Stories still used today • Wrote histories

  3. Cultural Contributions • Art/Architecture • Standards for Western civilization • Realistic art

  4. Cultural Contributions

  5. Cultural Contributions • Democracy • Direct democracy in Athens • Basis of our govt.

  6. Cultural Contributions • Drama • Religious festivals to Dionysus • Still performed today • Comedies & Tragedies • Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes Sophocles Aeschylus

  7. Cultural Contributions • Medicine • Hippocrates • Illness due to natural causes, not evil spirits

  8. Cultural Contributions • Mythology • Religion has become basis for our literature

  9. Cultural Contributions • Philosophy • Observation & Reason (basis for modern science) • 1st to emphasize teaching thought • Socrates – questions • Plato – writings – govt. • Aristotle - logic Socrates Plato Aristotle

  10. Cultural Contributions • Science/Math • Archimedes, Pythagoras • Responsible for many theories/formulas – geometry

  11. Cultural Contributions • Sports/Olympics • 1st to train for sports • Were religious festivals

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