Persian Wars
Across
- 5. Polis who leads the land forces
- 6. Ancient Turkey
- 9. Persian king who watches the loss at
- 12. Greek polis did this to win war, join
- 13. Act of nature that helps greeks at Salamis
- 15. Persian king who loses at Marathon
- 17. Largest empire in the world in 500BC
- 19. Name for Greek infantry
- 20. Battle in narrow pass, all Greeks perish
- 21. Leader of the Athenian navy at Salamis
- 23. The meaning of the word "Thermopylae"
Down
- 1. Final battle of the Persian wars
- 2. Result of Salamis that occurs to Athens
- 3. Greek battle formation
- 4. to place something on each side of
- 7. The "Greatest battle" in Greek history
- 8. Leader of the Spartans at Thermopylae
- 10. The Anatolian conflict that begins the war
- 11. Founder of the Persian empire
- 14. Greek ships with three rows of oars
- 16. Polis who leads naval battles
- 18. Naval battle fought in a strait near Athens
- 22. Greek historian who records the war