the first people to offer hypothesis about the nature of matter were?

Question

who were the first people to offer hypothesis about the nature of matter?
i give 10 points to the first person that gets it right...i'll be watiing

Answer 1

The theory is that is was the Greeks

The problem is that there is no real way of knowing - what can be known is the first people to offer this hypothesis that we have a written record of . . .which is a different thing.

Answer 2

The usual answer given was the Greeks. However some recent scholarship gives evidence to writings of the early Chinese