Daniela Boccadisi
Global History
Ancient Greece highly influenced and contributed many attributes to Western Civilization. For example we recieved philosophy, geometry, sculpture, and the concept of idealism. Socrates, a greek philosopher was the creator of philosophy and is a huge legend today. Euclid, a mathematician who opened a geometry school. We get idealism from architecture like buildings, columns,and symbols of honors for gods. Sculpture was really important in Ancient Greece because it reflected natural poses, symmetry, a god and/ or godess,etc.They also greatly valued Athletics like the Olympics Western civilizations have impacted highly from Ancient Greece's beginings.
First, a Greek philosopher by the name of Socrates created the Socratic method of questioning and answering and was accused of corruppting youth and challenging the existence of gods. (Doc.1)Socrates said " The unexamined life is not worth living" or in other words if you......
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