Chapter 8/ Ancient Greece Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 4. people who had the right to participate in government
- 5. a poem often set to music
- 6. rich landowners
- 9. one that is marked by great achievements
- 11. were considered to be the first Greeks as well as being the first to speak the Greek language.
- 13. the Greek word for city-state
- 14. a body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works
- 15. the geographic feature that covers most of Greeks
- 16. a government in which only a few people have power
- 17. a type of government in which people rule themselves
- 19. a person who created fables that taught life lessons
Down
- 1. a leader who held power through the use of force
- 2. short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live
- 3. a great poet that wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
- 4. the person who first brought democracy to Athens
- 7. the epic poem that tells of the last years of the Trojan War
- 8. the island that the Minoans lived on
- 10. a high hill
- 12. the first Greek city-state to develop a democracy.
- 18. marketplace and political/religious meetings held there