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=Famous Inventions of Ancient Greece=

In ancient Greece, there were many great inventions. A lot of ancient Greek inventions were buildings and clothing, such as temples, leather sandles and necklaces. They also invented many of the things we use in our lives, such as boats and pottery, they even invented boxing and the Olympics. One important invention that people use today, and is used to harvest vegetables is farming. Farming in ancient greece was difficult, due to the limited ammount of good soil. They usually grew grapes and olives, because they did not require good soil.

Some of the ancient Greek inventions, or improvements of ancient Greek inventions, are used in modern times. One invention from ancient Greece that we use in our everyday life is the invention of coined money. The invention of coined money is very significant for us, but in the ancient times, it took a while before other places saw how useful if was. One more invention was the shower, even though ancient Greeks did not know much about hygiene, they still beleived that soaking themselves in water was good for them, lucky for them it was, so long as the water they used was clean. An invention from ancient Greece that was and still is used to check temperature usually to determine if someone has a cold was the thermometer. The thermometer in ancient Greece was actually called a thermoscope and it was designed as a large tube with three different bubbles in it and depending on how the bubbles moved when someones temperature was taken determined the temperature of that person.

Another famous ancient Greek invention was the invention of the map, which were invented in 6200 B.C. By a Greek scholar named Anaximander. The maps made in ancient Greece were very similar to the ones still used today. An important invention in ancient Greece was the invention of medicine. The first ancient Greek medicine was invented by Greek physician Hippocrates, who also invented the 'Hippocratic Oath'. The Hippocratic Oath stated that doctors can not perform abortions or unnecessary surgeries such as plastic surgery, it also stated that doctors could only go to a paitents house for giving medical advice and not for innapropriate reasons. A weapon invented in ancient Greece was the catapult, by Dionysus, a warrior who was known from his violent battles. The catapult moved on to becoming one of the most lethal weapons, used in many wars and is still known to be very powerful today.

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