Ancient Greece

4. Member of a group of people who migrated into the Greek mainland
6. King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia
7. (430-347 BCE) Was a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of thought was his theory of Forms, in which there was another world of perfection.
9. A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility
11. Prosperous civilization on the Aegean island of Crete in the second millennium B.C.E. Exerted powerful cultural influences on the early Greeks.
12. A city-state in ancient Greece.
13. A Greek poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
14. Macedonian King who conquered and unified Greece
15. A blend of Greek, Persian, Egyptain, and Indian culture. Started by Alexander the Great.

1. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
2. (431-404 BCE) The war between Athens and Sparta that in which Sparta won, but left Greece as a whole weak and ready to fall to its neighbors to the north.
3. (470-399 BCE) An Athenian philosopher who thought that human beings could lead honest lives and that honor was far more important than wealth, fame, or other superficial attributes.
5. A military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields
8. an Indo-European person who settled on the Greek mainland around 2000 B.C.
10. A Greek Philosopher, taught Alexander the Great, started a famous school, studied with Plato
14. 5th century B.C.E wars between the Persian empire and Greek city-states; Greek victories allowed Greek civilization to define identity.