Greeks vs Persians

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Across
  1. 3. The waters around Salamis were too n______ for Persian ships to sail through.
  2. 4. The narrow passage where 7000 Greeks held back 200,000 Persians.
  3. 5. The name of an Ancient Greek war ship.
  4. 7. The hoplite battle formation
  5. 9. In 480BCE, the P_______ invaded Greece.
  6. 12. Triremes had three _____ of rowers.
  7. 15. Triremes were four metres _____.
  8. 16. In a phalanx, the Greeks overlapped their s________.
Down
  1. 1. Thermopylae is only ________ metres wides.
  2. 2. The King of Persia in 480BCE
  3. 6. The Greek used the sharp bronze _____ on their ships to sink the Persian ships.
  4. 8. The Spartan King in 480BCE.
  5. 10. The Persians burned this great Greek city down.
  6. 11. The Greeks lured the Persian ships near the island of S_______.
  7. 13. At Thermopylae, the Greeks held back the Persians for ____ days.
  8. 14. An ancient Greek soldier was called a h_______.