Achievement and Decline of the Greeks

• Search for knowledge was extremely important to the Greeks
• Philosophia


  The love of wisdom
• Achievements of the Greeks


  • Introduction of democracy
  • First to identify natural causes for diseases and explore natural remedies
  • The Hippocratic oath is a famous writing named after Hippocrates and was the first official statement on medical ethics
• Years of internal conflict led to the decline of the Greeks
• Phillip the II of Macedon conquered the cities of Thebes and Athens, and united Greece under his rule

  338 BC
• Upon Phillip's death, his son Alexander the Great took control
• Alexander the Great


  • He was a great general
  • He proceeded to conquer all of the land between Greece and India including Egypt