Irayma Greece Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. a government controlled by its citizens, either directly or through representatives
  2. 8. an ancient kingdom north of Greece, whose ruler Philip II conquered Greece in 338 B.C
  3. 10. a Greek city-state- the fundamental political unit if ancient Greek after about 750 B.C
  4. 11. a government in which power is in the hands of a single person, typically given the title of King or Queen
  5. 13. an enormous Hellenistic statue that formerly stood near the harbor of Rhodes
  6. 15. traditional stories about gods ancestors or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.
Down
  1. 1. a government in which power is in the hands of a few people- especially one in which rule based upon wealth.
  2. 2. Indo-European people. Around 200 B.C they settled on the Greek mainland
  3. 3. a government in which power is in the hands of a hereditary ruling class or nobility
  4. 4. a fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city
  5. 6. A landform surrounded by water on three sides
  6. 7. thinkers who use logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe human society, and morality.
  7. 9. long narrative poems celebrating the deeds of legendary or traditional heroes
  8. 12. relating to the civilization, language, art, science and literature of the Greek world from the reign of Alexander the Great to the late second century B.C
  9. 14. in ancient Greek, a powerful individual who gained control if a city-state's government by appealing to the poor for support