Philosophy

It was more shrouded Before the age of ancient Greece, the world did not see philosophy as we see it today. superstition and magic than it would be ever after. For example, if the Nile would rise and flood, making the soil dark and fertile, the Egyptians would believe it happened because their pharaoh commanded the river to do so.

But the Greeks approached philosophy from a different direction. They developed philosophy as a way of understanding the world around them, without resorting to religion, myth, or magic.
In fact the early Greek philosophers were also scientists who observed and studied the known world, the earth, seas, and the mountains. They also studied the solar system, and planetary motion.
Their philosophy based on reasoning and observation of the known world played a big role in the shaping of the western philosophical tradition. the scientist gave such influential philosophies that their studies were used to teach in the ages of Romans and other western cultures. And we still use some of it today.