Greece crossword
Across
- 3. a student of socrates and built the Academy
- 4. painters and sculptors have used gods and heroes as their subject because of _____
- 5. defeated defeated a large persian force by by luring them into the middle of their force
- 6. group of warriors who stood close together in a square
- 9. believed participating in government is just as important as defending Athens in war. He encouraged people to take pride in their city.
- 10. known as greek like:
- 11. greeks honored the gods by holding this sporting event
- 12. stories that teach the reader on how live or lessons about life
- 13. Peninsula
- 15. democracy created by the founders of the United states
- 17. to a story he was a slave and is famous for his fables
- 18. considered the first people to arrive in Greece because they didn’t speak the Greek language
- 19. Southwest Asia and most of Asia Minor
Down
- 1. leader who held power through the use of force
- 2. the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey
- 5. made the city-state much richer
- 6. of the worlds greatest mathematician
- 7. war
- 8. greek word for city state
- 11. area of land that is surrounded on 3 sides by water
- 12. city were usually built by a think also known as a high hill
- 13. the Great
- 14. war between Athens and Sparta that threatened to tear Greece
- 16. about gods and heroes that explain how the world works