ancient greek

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Across
  1. 2. A city-state in ancient Greece.
  2. 4. An educated guess
  3. 5. Cruel and oppressive government or rule
  4. 6. Farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops
  5. 8. foreigner in a Greek city-state, often a merchant or artisan
  6. 10. an alliance headed by Athens that says that all Greek city-states will come together and help fight the Persians
  7. 15. Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of government (who gets what, when, and how)
  8. 17. in ancient Greece, an athletic competition held every four years in honor of Zeus
  9. 18. Of or influenced by the Greek Empire. A type of culture typically referred to after the conquests of Alexander the Great
  10. 20. A government ruled by a few powerful people
  11. 22. 480 B.C.E. The battle that effectively ended the Persian war. The Greek fleet, although vastly outnumbered, defeated the Persian fleet. This helped end the Persian war, freeing Greece.
  12. 24. A government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility
Down
  1. 1. society organized for the purpose of waging war
  2. 3. military housing
  3. 7. A person with certain rights and responsibilities in his or her country or community
  4. 9. When a runner ran 26.1 Miles to deliver the message of victory of Greece over Persia in a great battle that SAVED ATHENS
  5. 11. a high-ranked government official in Sparta who was elected by the council of elders
  6. 12. Democracy a form of democracy in which citizens elect officials to govern on their behalf
  7. 13. Formed from the surrounding city-states near Sparta. It was formed to defeat democracy in Athens.
  8. 14. Spartan slave
  9. 16. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
  10. 18. a set of promises about patient care that new doctors make when they start practicing medicine
  11. 19. A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works
  12. 21. A military formation of foot soldiers armed with spears and shields
  13. 23. way of teaching developed by Socrates that used a question-and-answer format to force students to use their reason to see things for themselves