Chapter 7 lessons 1-3
Across
- 9. an open space used as a marketplace
- 10. Athens' kind of army
- 11. Greeks managed to defeat the Persians here
- 13. built an empire about the same size as the United States
- 14. rule by a small group of wealthy people
- 17. divisions of the Persian empire
- 18. influenced the development of city states
- 19. with valleys, separated Greek communities
- 20. someone who seizes power and rules with total authority
- 21. a body of land with water on three sides
- 23. preached that a single god was the creator of all things
- 24. 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
- 2. important to all the groups of people who lived on or around Greece
- 3. all citizens share in running the government
- 4. an island civilization
- 5. a storyteller
- 6. here the Greeks defeated the Persians because they had smaller, faster ships
- 7. an island southeast of the Greek mainland
- 8. ended farmers' debts and freed slaves in 594 bc
- 12. could be citizens in most city states
- 15. concept created by the Greeks
- 16. the military city state
- 19. a mainland civilization
- 22. ended before mainland Greek civilization began