Simplify the following text for a Grade 12 native English-speaking person.
Original: The ideas associated with it are exemplified by three philosophers from the Ionian town of Miletus , on the Aegean coast of Anatolia : Thales , Anaximander , and Anaximenes .
Simplified: The ideas associated with it are exemplified by three philosophers from the Ionian town of Miletus : Thales , Anaximander , and Anaximenes .