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  1. 1. goddess of wisdom and war, patron goddess of Athens
  2. 5. Ancient Greek poet who composed two poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, about the Trojan War
  3. 6. Ancient Athenian leader who strove to make Athens the center of art and literature and who was responsible for building the Parthenon.
  4. 8. Ancient Greek doctor who is often called the "father of medicine"
  5. 13. sea goddesses in mythology that sang a lured sailors to their deaths.
  6. 16. valuables taken in war
  7. 17. a government that is run by a few people, usually by members of rich, powerful families
  8. 18. powerful military ships - on the bow was a bronze-tipped battering ram, which could easily slice through a wooden ship.
  9. 22. the basic law making body in a democracy, made up of a group of citizens
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  1. 2. Scientist of the Hellenistic Age who was the first person to explain how levers work
  2. 3. Queen of the gods
  3. 4. a government run by the people in which citizens make their laws
  4. 7. another name for city-state used by the Greeks
  5. 9. Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician whose ideas led to the field of geometry
  6. 10. Goddess of love and beauty
  7. 11. a type of government in which all power is held in the hands of one ruler, usually a military leader
  8. 12. developed written code of Athenian law 620 BC
  9. 14. method an approach to teaching developed by the Greek philosopher, Socrates, which involves teaching people to think by asking questions
  10. 15. a mountain in northern Greece thought by the ancient Greeks to be the home of their gods
  11. 19. a system of government ruled by a queen or a king; "one ruler"
  12. 20. King of the gods
  13. 21. Peninsula a stretch of land that extends southward into the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea