This virtual museum document provides an overview of exhibits on ancient Greece, including slavery, philosophy, and the philosopher Socrates. The museum contains rooms on Greek slavery, philosophy, and artifacts related to Socrates. Fun facts are also provided in one exhibit. The document introduces the key topics and exhibits within the virtual museum on ancient Greece.

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Ancient Greece Slavery
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Ancient Greece Socrates
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3. Greek Philosophy
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4. Greek Slavery
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5. Greek Philosophy
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6. Greek Slavery
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7. Fun Facts
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8. Socrates was if not, the most important thinker of ancient Greece.
Socrates was credited for giving Greek
philosophy a new direction. He is known through
the writings of his student Plato; due to Socrates
writing nothing during his life in 5th century B.C.
The Sophists were the group of internment
teachers that provided the intellectual matrix that
produced Socrates. Socrates wanted to teach
people to think. He wanted to prove how there
are different sides to an argument.
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9. Many people of ancient Greece did not accept Socrates teachings.
Many people did not accept Socrates teachings.
He was put to death on charges of atheism and
corrupting the young. (There was no place for
traditional Greek religion during this time, though
it would be inaccurate to call them atheist). After
his execution many of his disciples including Plato
left Athens for safety. They traveled to the
neighboring state, Megara.
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10. Slavery in Ancient Greece was very rough and grueling.
In Ancient Greece slaves were
around. They made many sacrifices to stay alive.
One thing they had to go through was getting
their hair cut off before they ever started working
for a master. They usually never saw their
families again and were treated horribly. Slaves
didn’t have any say in their life. Only their masters
controlled it.
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11. African Americans were put into slavery after the war.
Working as a slave in Ancient Greece
wasn’t fun at all. Instead of taking care of their
kids they had to take care of their master’s kids.
Young girls were worst off because they were
entertainment for men at drinking parties. Really
young slave kids in Greece worked ten hour shifts
in black crawl- tunnels with bad ventilation. Men
didn’t work because they were mostly killed off in
war if not they were put into slavery.
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12. Greek philosophy began with speculation in the region of Ionia.
In Miletus, located on the southwest coastline of
modern day Turkey and was the most important
of all Ionian cities. It was there that Thales had
the intuition that a single substance underlay
everything in the world. His hypothesis was that
the substance was water. His disciple
Anaximander in turn suggested that the
substance was indefinite. His follower,
Anaximenes in turn suggested that the substance
was air.
This began the thought of different sides- to the
same argument.
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13. Socrates is known for landmark importance in Western thought.
Socrates has a huge impact on philosophy in
ancient Greece and eventually throughout the
western civilization. Socrates taught people how
to think, and wanted to prove how there are
different sides to an argument- and in the long run
did prove exactly that. The Greeks created a body
of literature and philosophy whose impact still
endures the 21st century. By his example,
philosophy was turned away from it’s prior
emphasis on natural science and became more
toward a question of ethics.
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14. Doing work for a slave was not far in any way, even their kids had to work.
Even though slaves did all the work
they got paid very little. They had many jobs and
never got a break. Even after their owner died,
the owner had the choice to pass the slave down
to his son or free the slave to find more work.
Women were house hold slaves. They had to do
lots of jobs for the wife such as getting water for
her, doing the wife’s hair, even shading the wife
as she walks through the streets so she’s not to
hot.
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15. If you were a slave in Ancient Greece you had no respect and you were always doing work.
Slaves were never treated with any
respect. If they were asked for it was because
they were going to have to do more work. During
this time the master would feed, give food and
shelter to the slave just like a pet. Slave women
even had to wool things and if they messed up
they would have to undo the wool which took all
night. While the masters would go out the slave
would even have to get fire wood without help.
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16. Slaves had no rights to do anything they were just their to work all
day and night.
Slaves were not educated so anything the master
told them they thought it was true. Even though
they weren’t educated they knew it wasn’t right
for just them to scrub floors for hours. Then when
they are done with that there is whole list of
things still to do. Greeks thought as slaves as a
living tool. Even when the slaves were cleaning
they were responsible for watching the children
and making sure they aren’t trying to hurt
themselves.
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17. Socrates teachings are still being taught in today’s world
Socrates teachings are still being taught even in
today’s world. Socrates is known for creating a
whole line of intellectual philosophers who
followed after him. Like his student Plato whom
taught Aristotle who taught Alexander the Great
(who became a king of Macedon). Socrates is the
reason we are able to think ‘outside of the box’
and that there are different sides to an argument
to take into consideration. This developed into a
Socratic discussion in which there are no wrong
answers but opposing viewpoints based on
asking and answering questions based on critical
thinking.
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18. Socrates believed in talking philosophy particularly about ethics.
After Socrates example, ethics became
known as moral philosophy. It became a
branch of philosophy that involves
systematizing, defending and
recommending concepts of right and
wrong conduct. The term comes from the
Greek word ethos.
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