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Innovations from the Greco-Roman era

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What are 2 great advances from the Greco-Roman era. Why those advances are significant?

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This solution examines two advances, or innovations, from the Greco-Roman era, and explains why they were significant.

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First of all, an astronomer by the name of Claudius Ptolemy managed to map over 1000 stars and put together a list of about 48 constellations. This enabled him to visualize and describe the longitude and latitude lines of the earth. This "advance" was significant since it was the first ...

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