... the Mediterranean in Greece (6). Pythagoras was born off the coast of Turkey on the Island of Samos in the 6th century BC. He is most famous for his well-known proposition about right angle triangles, known as the Pythagorean Theorem. Having spent time in Egypt and Babylon, much of his main philosophical teachings are a combination of ideas expressed in the places he traveled to (1). Pythagoras ... a less then perfect world. Many of the influential documents and philosophers of eastern thought were strict practitioners and preachers of vegetarianism (6). Religions such as Hinduism, Budd...

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