Ancient Greece Crossword History 133

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  1. 3. The Athenian assembly which had the right to elect archons and in which all free-born citizens might participate on the slopes of Pnyx.
  2. 7. A resident of the island of Lesbos, she composed songs that were often passionately dedicated to women.
  3. 12. The central marketplace of the Greek city-state where meetings were held and business of the city was conducted in the open air.
  4. 13. Cleisthenes was the first archon to allow Athenians to decide if they wanted to banish someone for a decade, in a process known as _________.
  5. 15. While Athens was initially ruled over by the aristocrats who dominated the city’s council, the Areopagus, eventually a smaller group of 9 aristocratic officials known as _______ took over authority.
  6. 17. This Spartan “secret service that spied on citizens and infiltrated the helot population to identify potential troublemakers.
  7. 18. The Temple of Delphi, which was dedicated to this sun god, was also home to his oracle, who could give advice because they lived in a state of trance.
  8. 20. In 621 CE he created the first set of Athenian written laws in an attempt to control civic violence through harsh punishments.
  9. 21. This archon took steps to limit aristocratic power in 508 BCE and reorganized Athens into 10 voting districts, suppressing traditional loyalties tied to aristocrats.
  10. 23. Sparta had a _________ monarchy, with neither of the two ruling families being superior to the other, which often led to political in-fighting among their supporters.
  11. 25. These Milesian philosophers built on older traditions of Near Eastern learning and embraced new questions about the relationship between the kosmos and the gods and men.
  12. 26. Around 1000 BCE peace and increased trade brought a new form of social hierarchy, in which the Greek men who controlled the wealth believed they did so because of their superior qualities as ___________________.
  13. 28. Citizen-soldiers who made up the standing militia of ancient Greece.
  14. 30. These five annually elected representatives supervised the educational system and acted as guardians of the Spartan tradition.
  15. 31. This famous philosopher denigrated democracy as “mob rule” because it gave too much power to the demos.
  16. 32. In battle, Greek soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder in a close formation known as a ___________, several columns across and several rows deep.
  17. 34. In the 5th century BCE this Greek historian and subject of the Persian Empire wrote about the histories and peoples from Eurasia and Africa.
  18. 35. The citizens assembly of Sparta, which was populated by males over the age of 30, who voted on matters proposed by a council of 28 elders and the two kings.
  19. 37. An intimate gathering at which elite men would enjoy wine, poetry competitions by trained dancers and acrobats, and the company of hetaeras (courtesans).
  20. 38. By the end of the 12th century BCE, Mycenaean civilization had vanished and all of the great citadels, except in the city of _______, were destroyed.
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  1. 1. The territory of the Ancient Greek polis outside of the city proper, where the Agora and the asty were located.
  2. 2. These games were held in honor of the king of the gods, Zeus, near a giant temple dedicated to him at Olympia.
  3. 4. An Athenian poet who was elected archon in 594 BCE and set about created political and economic reforms that laid the foundations for Athenian Ddemocracy.
  4. 5. The main policy-making body of the Spartan polis and its primary court, with members elected for life who had to be over the age of 60.
  5. 6. Across the Aegean from the Greek mainland lay the Greek cities of ________, which had a close but increasingly difficult relationship with Persia.
  6. 8. Free residents of Peloponnesian cities who handled the business concerns of Spartan society, but exercised no political rights.
  7. 9. The most famous example of a rhapsode, he wove together the mesh of stories we know today as the Iliad and the Odyssey.
  8. 10. The subjugated population group from Laconia and Messenia, who became a slave population forced to work under Spartan lordship.
  9. 11. A _________ culture was created throughout Eurasia as a result of the spread of Greek culture through colonization.
  10. 12. Throughout the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, _________ continued to control the Greek poleis, with struggles between competing families becoming commonplace.
  11. 14. a type of leader in ancient Greece who held great individual power but also had to seek the support of the hoplite class by further extending their rights of political participation.
  12. 16. A series of rhythmic versus sung to the music of the lyre, which were composed orally, or even improvised, and beloved by the aristocrats of ancient Greece.
  13. 19. The Greeks adopted this alphabet rather than the forgotten Linear B of the Myceneans.
  14. 22. According to the ancient Greeks, this form of excessive pride in one’s own accomplishments could be dangerous, as it might attract the adverse attention of the gods.
  15. 24. As a leader in 546, he crushed dissent ruthlessly and launched the reforms of Solon and a massive campaign of public-works projects, including the collection and codification of Homer’s epics.
  16. 27. Rule by the few.
  17. 29. A social collectivity in ancient Greece formed around individual city-states.
  18. 31. Scholars date this period in Greek history to the emergence of the polis and the return of writing.
  19. 33. He argued that true love could only exist between a man in his late 20s or 30s and a protégé in his early to mid-teens.
  20. 36. The only society of the ancient world that abandoned infants that were not healthy enough to raise, by leaving them in the mountains.