People of the Aegean Area

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Across
  1. 5. blind poet who wandered from village to village, wrote the Odyssey and Iliad
  2. 6. Athenian reformer who broadened the role of ordinary citizens in government
  3. 7. Spartans who conquered Laconia
  4. 9. how the Greeks honored gods
  5. 13. Expanded the Phoenician alphabet
  6. 15. Athenian thinker who saw women as imperfect beings who lacked the ability to reason as well as men
  7. 17. reached out beyond Aegean to Sicily, Italy, Egypt, Mesopotamia
  8. 19. officials who held the real power and ran day-to-day affairs
Down
  1. 1. power is in the hands of a small powerful elite usually from the business class
  2. 2. areas dedicated to the honor of gods and goddesses
  3. 3. in present day Turkey
  4. 4. state owned slaves that worked the land
  5. 6. prepared laws for the assembly and supervised the day-to-day work of government
  6. 8. government by the people
  7. 10. excavated the site of ancient Troy
  8. 11. law making body
  9. 12. Athenian tyrant who helped farmers by giving them loans and taking land from the nobles
  10. 14. watercolor paintings done on wet plaster
  11. 16. Greece is part of this peninsula
  12. 18. home to Minoans