Famous+Greeks

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 * //__Some of these Greeks were…__//**

- **//__Plato:__//** **//(429-327 B.C.) Finding the world first University, he was one of the smartest greeks known. Carrying on his work from Socrates, he wrote them all down in a book. Many years’ later people use his teachings all over the world.//**

- **//__Aristotle:__//** **//(382-322 B.C.) Being a very smart guy, he discovered things such as Biology and Science. He wrote many books such as; poetry, zoology, politics, government, and much more. Seeing his dad was the King of Macedonia, that made him all the smarter. When he was 17, he turned and went to study the Athens.//**


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-** **//__Parmenides:__//** **//Studying the sky, in 470 B.C. while watching an eclipse she saw how the Earth had a curved shadow. So thought that the world must be round.//**




 * -** **//__Archimedes:__//** **//Being a mathematician and an engineer, he found and//**
 * //designed many things. One of his most famous inventions was a machine called the Archimedean. This machine made water flow uphill helping them get more water. Also, it helped them tell the difference between fools gold, and real gold. Using this for 2,000 years it has really helped us.//**


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-** **//__Pythagoras:__//** **//There wasn’t to much about him, but he was a mathematician. Also, supposedly he was the one who thought of and created the right-angled triangle.//**



- **//__Alexander the Great:__//** **//Born in 356 B.C. in Pella, Macedonia, and the son of Philip of Macedon, he became smart and an excellent general. When he grew up he conquered more land then his dad and any other general or king known all over Greece, so they started to call him" the Great”.//**

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