During the Golden Age, the people looked to gods and goddesses for answers to all mysteries. However, a group of people decided to search for their own answers.

They believed that humans could answer their questions. And they left huge contributions to the world.

Pythagoras, a Greek mathematician, led the study of geometry. Hippocrates contribute his work in the field of medicine.

Pythagoras lived from 580B.C. to 500 B.C., he was born on the island of Samos.

He made huge discoveries in geometry. He proved that any triangle had certain properties to be a right triangle. This refers to the Pythagorean theorem.

Hippocrates was the first doctor to study the actual, natural causes of disease. He belived that the human body was one complete organism and each part could be understood only by studying the full body. He wrote 53 books on various topics in medicine. These books are now gathered into a collection known as the corpus (body).