| A | B |
| Herodotus | wrote "The History of the Persian Wars" |
| Aristotle | Platos best student who wrote more than 200 books on topics ranging from government to the planets and stars |
| Thucydides | The greatest historian of the ancient world |
| Plato | wrote "The Republic" |
| philosophy | study of the nature and meaning of life comes from the Greek word for "love of wisdom" |
| philosopher | thinker who seek wisdom and ponders questions about life |
| sophist | professional teacher in ancient Greece believed that people should use knowledge to improve themselves and developed the art of public speaking and debate |
| Socratic Method | way of teaching developed by Socrates that used a question and answer formal to force students to use their reason to see things for themselves |
| Pythagoras | Greek philosopher taught his pupils that the universe followed the same laws that governed music and numbers |
| Socrates | critic of sophists,Athenian sculptor whose true love was philosophy |