Chapter 7 lessons 1-3
Across
- 2. a storyteller
- 3. all citizens share in running the government
- 4. a body of land with water on three sides
- 5. an open space used as a marketplace
- 6. influenced the development of city states
- 8. an island civilization
- 9. someone who seizes power and rules with total authority
- 11. important to all the groups of people who lived on or around Greece
- 12. a mainland civilization
- 14. could be citizens in most city states
- 15. the military city state
- 18. divisions of the Persian empire
- 19. with valleys, separated Greek communities
- 21. preached that a single god was the creator of all things
- 22. under him, every male citizen of Athens had a chance to be on the city council
Down
- 1. Sparta fought long and hard here but lost to the Persians
- 4. built an empire about the same size as the United States
- 7. rule by a small group of wealthy people
- 10. ended before mainland Greek civilization began
- 13. an island southeast of the Greek mainland
- 14. Greeks managed to defeat the Persians here
- 16. Athens' kind of army
- 17. concept created by the Greeks
- 18. ended farmers' debts and freed slaves in 594 bc
- 20. here the Greeks defeated the Persians because they had smaller, faster ships