THE MAY ECO-QUIZ WAS:
They lived 2,000 years apart, the second greatly improved the first's system of kingdoms. Who are they?

No, it is not the "Roman Empire and the French Empire under Napoleon", thank you Mr. James Graves for trying.

The answer is Aristoteles (Aristotle) and Carl von Linne (Linnaeus), founder of the modern system of classification of animal "kingdoms". Organisms were first classified by Aristoteles, Greek philosopher of the 4th century BC, who classified beings into either Plants or Animals. He grouped animals into Land, Water and Air Dwellers, and grouped plants into three categories according to differences in their stems. Linnaeus, Swedish Biologist of the mid 1700s, also divided organisms into two kingdoms, plants and animals (plantae and animalia). He then broke each kingdom into classes, each class into orders, each order into genera and each genera into species. Modern scientists have since added two more levels of classification, phylum/division and family. We also recognise that apart from animals and plants, there are four more kingdoms: archaebacteria, eubacteria, protista and fungi.

THE JUNE ECO-QUIZ IS : 
Both would tell you where you are when travelling, one does already, the other could in the future, unless the first prevails. What are we talking about?

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