Greece 3

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Across
  1. 2. Greek ships would try to ___ enemy ships to sink them.
  2. 4. In its war with Sparta, the siege of Athens succeeded because of a ______ that killed 1 in 4 people.
  3. 8. The earliest Greek civilizations of Crete and Mycenae as well as most ______ Age Mediterranean civilizations collapsed around 1200 BCE (3000 years ago), maybe due to attacks by “Sea Peoples”, earthquakes, drought, and/or other reasons.
  4. 9. Ancient History’s version of a tank, usually holding an archer and/or a spearman.
  5. 11. We can thank the Greeks for developing our ______, adding vowels, and even the term we use for our set of letters.
  6. 13. The ____ wall provided the defense for the Greek Phalanx as long as everyone stayed in formation.
Down
  1. 1. Most Greek soldiers were farmers most of the time but Sparta had a ________ army.
  2. 3. Many of the stories about Alexander the Great are myth or ________.
  3. 4. The civilization that we can thank for an early approach to the Alphabet and the term Phonics for sounding out words, but not for vowels.
  4. 5. The name for a Greek soldier – named after their shield.
  5. 6. Not Brego, but _______ was Alexander’s horse that only he could tame. He had a city named after him.
  6. 7. The most important weapon in Greek armies, but not for throwing.
  7. 10. A stack of loser armor or an award for a victory now.
  8. 12. If you had sailed into the harbor at Alexandria Egypt, you would have been required to lend them all your _____.