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golden age of athens
 

5 0 0  bc   high point of greek culture      democracy + oral tradition strong      invented scientific history (enquiry = istorie)      growth of reason and intellectual power      invented theater      literacy high      agriculture is backbone of economy      borrowed architectural ideas from Asia     columns from Egypt	citizens and non citizens      slavery exists (25% of population)      born to it      condemned by court      bought      through war (rare save for women) idea: something wrong with greeks having greeks as slaves      most in town as servants and craftsmen
Socrates      the most important thing a man can do is    try to understand how he can live a good    life; questioned things most people took    for granted      to expose error and intellectual rubbish is    a necessary step in discovering the truth	Plato      reason provided the certainty that such    concepts as justice, beauty, goodness really    existed in a world made up of ideas.      world of changeless reality beyond the changing    material world - this could be reached by the    human soul and is made up of ideas.
Aristotle      wrote about      biology, physics, math, literature, logic,    ethics, psychology, politics      left behind enough for learned people to    build on for 2000 years	Sciences     Democratus: matter made of atoms      Pythagoras: logic      Hypocrates:  medicine
Greek alphabet      Etruscan (Italy)      Latin (rome)     Cyrillic (Russian, east)	Greek contribution (invented)    politics      philosophy      arithmetic      geometry