Timeline by Molly Higgins

Democracy

y2030molhig1_1 — 2025-01-24 18:25:22 UTC

The greeks were one of the first civilizations to use a democracy. However the greeks system was a direct democracy, where the people would vote on laws and changes. The democracy of the United States is a representative democracy, we vote for people we think will do a good job and the winner makes the decisions for us

Pythagorean Theorem

y2030molhig1_1 — 2025-01-24 18:31:53 UTC

The Pythagorean Theorem is an equation that helps us find the side lengths of a right triangle. It is widely used in all sorts of things, such as construction, navigation and manufacturing

Biology

y2030molhig1_1 — 2025-01-27 18:55:20 UTC

The Greeks were the civilization the develop biology in about 600 B.C.E. They believed that everything in nature had a cause and effect, they used that to study the natural world. Scientists were curious, so they studied the anatomy and bone structure of animals. Hence, biology

The Alphabet, Alpha, Bet

y2030molhig1_1 — 2025-01-29 18:38:05 UTC

The Greeks were some of the first people to use the Alphabet, in around 1000 BCE. The word even comes from the first to letters in greek, Alpha and beta. Today, many languages and words have roots in greek. One popular example is the Telephone. Tel means far off, and phone means voice

Hippocrates (medical advances)

y2030molhig1_1 — 2025-01-29 18:50:50 UTC

Hippocrates was the man who encouraged doctors to look further into the physical causes of illness, rather than the "spiritual ones". He was also a professor, who taught students to watch their patients closely and report on what they saw.

Trade/Colonization

y2030molhig1_1 — 2025-01-30 13:02:49 UTC

The Greeks had many colonies and there for very good trade systems, and an exceptional army. The greeks had colonies as far east as all the way into western Asia and as far to the west as Spain. sometimes there were no people settled in these places and sometimes there were, and military forces were utilized