CIVILIZATION
PHOENICIAN
Question
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Pythagoras and Archimedes
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Pythagoras and Copernicus
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Archimedes and Copernicus
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ancient Greece’s thriving civilization allowed great thinkers such as Thales, Pythagoras, Euclid, and Archimedes to flourish through discovery and innovation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some of the more widely known figures active in this period include Hippocrates, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Hipparchus, Galen, and Ptolemy. Their contributions and commentaries spread throughout the Eastern, Islamic, and Latin worlds and contributed to the birth of modern science.
Detailed explanation-3: -Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who made important developments in mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music. The theorem now known as Pythagoras’s theorem was known to the Babylonians 1000 years earlier but he may have been the first to prove it.