Key idea: The five postulates of Euclid
**Postulate 1**: A straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point.
**Postulate 2**: A terminated line (segment) can be produced indefinitely (extended).
**Postulate 3**: A circle can be drawn with any centre and any radius.
**Postulate 4**: All right angles are equal to one another.
**Postulate 5** (the famous one): If a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side together less than two right angles (180°), then the two lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.
These 5 statements are the seeds. Everything else in classical geometry grows from them.