How did the ancient Greeks encourage scientific thinking?
Most early peoples were interested in the things and events around them, but the ancient Greeks took their thinking a lot further. They used reason and deduction to try and decide about the meaning of the world, placing great importance on learning, music and writing. The ancient Greeks developed philosophy as a way of thinking about fife and the world we live in, and they also developed the rules of mathematics that are still used today.
The ancient Greeks also developed their own system of medicine that persisted for 1,500 years or more. The Greeks were only interested in thinking about such things. They seldom experimented to see if their theories were correct.
Who was Alexander the Great?
Alexander was a king of Macedonia, a poor country that needed to expand in order to survive. Although he was only 20 when he became king, Alexander rapidly conquered Greece. He then led his armies against the mighty Persian Empire, and within three years he had conquered it too. He now ruled an empire extending from Egypt and the Mediterranean coast all the way into India.
Alexander developed various methods of warfare, such as siege engines, that were to be used for hundreds of years. He introduced Greek methods of thinking and religion into his empire, and divided it into a series of small kingdoms under his own authority. He was only 32 when he died at Alexandria, in Egypt.
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