Ancient Greece Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. a Greek city-state
  2. 4. an agreement to work together
  3. 5. a high hill at the center of a city
  4. 7. rich landowners
  5. 10. an age marked by great achievements
  6. 11. short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live
  7. 12. clear & ordered thinking
  8. 14. a type of government in which people rule themselves
  9. 16. a body of stories about gods & heroes that try to explain how the world works
  10. 19. a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of the prophet Zoroaster
  11. 20. a person who has the right to participate in government
Down
  1. 1. a series of sports contests that began in Olympia to honor Zeus
  2. 2. plays performed to honor gods & heroes or to entertain
  3. 6. a group of warriors who stood close together in a square
  4. 8. a government in which only a few people have power
  5. 9. an epic about the last years of the Trojan War
  6. 13. Greek or Greek-like
  7. 15. a unit of soldiers who ride horses
  8. 17. a leader who holds power through the use of force
  9. 18. an epic about Odysseus’s journey home from Troy to Ithaca