https://padlet.com/andersen_luke/2d29h1knp53e en-us 2016-03-17 17:18:02 UTC 2016-03-18 17:34:37 UTC hello@padlet.com andersen_luke https://padlet.com/andersen_luke/2d29h1knp53e/wish/101605704 This is the White House. It has columns. These are Doric style columns that were invented by the Greeks. We still use these today because the columns can hold more weight.    

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There was no central government in ancient Greece. Greece, back then, was not even one country. People lived in city-states.  All of the Greeks believed in the same gods, and they all shared common history. ]]> 2016-03-17 17:36:02 UTC https://padlet.com/andersen_luke/2d29h1knp53e/wish/101608272 andersen_luke https://padlet.com/andersen_luke/2d29h1knp53e/wish/101610115 The word math comes the Greek word mathema. Ancient Greeks began a systematic study of mathematics in its own right with Greek mathematics. The Egyptians came up with numbers but the Greeks made math out of it. Imagine life if there was no math. 

]]> 2016-03-17 17:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/andersen_luke/2d29h1knp53e/wish/101610115 andersen_luke https://padlet.com/andersen_luke/2d29h1knp53e/wish/101645805 Science was very important to the Greeks. Science in Ancient Greece was based on logical thinking and mathematics. It was also based on technology and everyday life. The arts in Ancient Greece were sculptors and painters. The Greeks wanted to know more about the world, the heavens and themselves. People studied about the sky, sun, moon, and the planets. The Greeks found that the earth was round.]]> 2016-03-17 20:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/andersen_luke/2d29h1knp53e/wish/101645805 andersen_luke https://padlet.com/andersen_luke/2d29h1knp53e/wish/101802863 Nike was a Greek God. He or she was a god of winning. One day, somebody invented a shoe company called "Nike" because they wanted people to win races with there shoes. ]]> 2016-03-18 17:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/andersen_luke/2d29h1knp53e/wish/101802863 andersen_luke https://padlet.com/andersen_luke/2d29h1knp53e/wish/101803568 One of the most popular Greek languages used today is Latin. Most of our American words used today come from the Greek Lagnuage. The only thing that changed was that in the Latin language, people wrote right to left while we now write left to right.]]> 2016-03-18 17:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/andersen_luke/2d29h1knp53e/wish/101803568