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The Hittites' warrior aristocracy fielded the most feared army during the bronze age and were quick to adopt the latest technology, including the chariot and eventually the use of iron for weaponry.
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The Ugaritic alphabet consisted of about thirty symbols representing the sounds of consonants. This would become the model for the development of all modern alphabets.
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Homer, the poet credited with having woven together the mesh of stories that we know today as the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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The founder was Zarathustra, known to the Greeks as Zoroaster. It was believed that light will not triumph over darkness until the Last Day when the of Ahuramazda vanquish those of Ahriman forever. This vision of the universe would prove influential, later informing the developing theologies of Christianity and Islam.
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Socrates's goal as a Philosopher was to help human beings understand and apply standards of absolute good, rather than to master a series of mental tricks that facilitate personal gain at the expense of others. A democratic court ruled to put him to death because of Disloyalty to the polis, corruption of the youth, and denying the gods.
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He began extraordinary advances in medicine. He was the first to practice human dissection.
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Hellenistic mathematician was Euclid, whose Elements of Geometry remained the basic textbook of that subject until the twentieth century of our era.
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He discovered the law of floating bodies, or specific gravity, now known as "Archimedes principle."
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He calculated the circumference of the earth and was only off by a small margin of 200 miles. He also believed that it was possible to reach Asia by sailing west.
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He made discoveries that established that the heart was a pump and not an organ of emotion. He also rejected the widely held theory of the physician Hippocrates.
