Ancient Greece Review Crossword

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  1. 4. father of tragedy
  2. 6. was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer; created the concept of pi
  3. 7. a collection of myths, especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.
  4. 9. Greek philosopher who was the teacher of Plato; socratic method
  5. 16. a body of troops standing or moving in close formation
  6. 17. a war between Athens and Sparta, 431-404 b.c., that resulted in the transfer of power in Greece from Athens to Sparta
  7. 18. the body of water which the Greeks used to trade
  8. 19. one of classical Athens' three great tragic playwrights
  9. 20. the method which Greeks first exchanged (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money.
  10. 21. form of Greek theater that intended to make an audience laugh
  11. 22. a form of democracy in which people decide (policy initiatives directly
  12. 24. greek city-state
  13. 28. was an alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens and formed in 478 BCE to liberate eastern Greek cities from Persian rule
  14. 29. greatest of ancient Greek historians and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War
  15. 30. a form of government in which power is held by the nobility
  16. 31. discovered the Pythagorean Theorem
  17. 32. wars fought between Greece and Persia in the 5th century BC, in which the Persians sought to extend their territory over the Greek world
  18. 33. a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character
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  1. 1. father of geometry
  2. 2. largest city of Greece that developed the first democracy
  3. 3. student of Socrates and later became the teacher of Aristotle
  4. 5. legendary author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
  5. 8. father of medicine
  6. 10. was an Athenian ruler who expanded democracy in Athens
  7. 11. classical age in Greece that has given us the great monuments, art, philosophy, architecture and literature which are the building blocks of our own civilization; the two most well known city-states during this period were the rivals: Athens and Sparta
  8. 12. first recorded legislator of Athens in Ancient Greece; replaced the prevailing system of oral law by a written code to be enforced only by a court
  9. 13. a form of government with a monarch (king or queen) at the head; first government of Athens
  10. 14. father of history;wrote about the Persian Wars
  11. 15. figure in ancient Greek philosophy he was a student of Plato who made contributions to logic, physics, mathematics, and physics; created the scientific method
  12. 23. a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution
  13. 24. Greek sculptor, painter, and architect, statue of Zeus at Olympia was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, built Parthenon
  14. 25. warrior society in ancient Greece that reached the height of its power after defeating rival city-state Athens in the Peloponnesian War
  15. 26. the term for Greek culture which spread during the expansion of Alexander the Great's empire
  16. 27. a Doric temple of Athena built on the acropolis at Athens in the fifth century b.c.
  17. 29. a cruel and oppressive ruler but in the case of Athens someone who wanted reform