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