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Greek Philosophers and Medicine

History · Ancient Greece & Rome · ages 9-11
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. What did Hippocrates believe caused illness?

    • Curses from angry gods
    • Natural causes in the body
    • Bad luck from the stars

  2. What is a philosopher?

    • A person who asks big questions about the world
    • A person who paints pictures of gods
    • A person who fights in wars

  3. The Socratic method means telling students the answer right away.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. Aristotle loved studying plants and animals. What did he do with what he learned?

    • He sorted them into groups based on what they had in common
    • He turned them into medicine
    • He wrote laws about hunting them

  5. Who is known for imagining what an ideal, fair society would look like?

    • Socrates
    • Hippocrates
    • Plato

  6. Before Hippocrates, many Greeks blamed illness on the gods.

    Circle one:   True   False

  7. A student says: 'Aristotle is called the father of medicine because he studied the body.' What is wrong with this sentence?

    • Medicine did not exist in ancient Greece
    • Aristotle never studied anything about nature
    • Hippocrates, not Aristotle, is called the father of medicine

  8. A teacher keeps asking her students 'Why do you think that?' instead of giving answers. Which Greek thinker worked this way?

    • Aristotle
    • Socrates
    • Hippocrates
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  1. Natural causes in the body · Hippocrates said sickness came from natural causes, not from gods punishing people.
  2. A person who asks big questions about the world · Philosophers are thinkers who ask big questions about the world and how to live.
  3. False · The Socratic method means asking questions so the learner works out the answer.
  4. He sorted them into groups based on what they had in common · Aristotle observed nature closely and classified living things into groups.
  5. Plato · Plato wrote about the ideal society, thinking hard about what would make it fair.
  6. True · That's true. Hippocrates was different because he looked for natural causes instead.
  7. Hippocrates, not Aristotle, is called the father of medicine · Aristotle studied and classified nature, but Hippocrates is the father of medicine.
  8. Socrates · That question-asking style is the Socratic method, named after Socrates.
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