The flourishing of culture was accompanied by the first scientific approach to nature . Budding scientific thought was not yet divided into various fields ; there were as yet no distinct and separate sciences . The Ancient Greek naturalist philosophers observed all spheres of life , from astronomy to medicine . These first attempts at scientific research were , at the same time , an expression of a materialistic outlook on nature . The concept that man was not the creation of super natural forces but that the gods had been created by man's imagination , was beginning to take root . The practical observation of natural phenomena was conducive to the formation of a materialistic outlook .
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