Unit 3: Greece Review
Across
- 1. Macedonian warrior who studied Greek culture
- 4. stories created by ancient cultures to explain the world around them
- 5. open air market in ancient Greece
- 7. the best example of classical Greek architecture and temple of Athena
- 9. Greek historian who wrote the history of the Persian Wars
- 13. rule by a small group of people
- 17. taught his students to question everything
- 18. city-state based on their military
- 20. the Greeks are credited with the invention of theater, also called ______
- 22. a Greek city
- 24. Greek philosopher who developed the scientific method
- 25. Greek philosopher and mathematician who developed the pythagorean theorem about the hypotenuse of a right angle
- 28. Greek foot soldier
- 29. rule by the people
- 31. only this group went to school in Athens
- 32. father of geometry
- 33. the group who finally conquered the Greeks
Down
- 1. inventor of weapons and calculator of pi
- 2. the battle at which the Spartans held the Persian army at bay until the rest of Greece could prepare to defend itself from Persian invasion
- 3. a period in the history of a civilization during which they are most powerful
- 5. developed the world's first democracy
- 6. Greek historian who took a scientific approach to the study of history
- 8. a fortified hill inside a Greek city-state
- 10. Spartan slave
- 11. drama where the hero was has powerful abilities but has a flaw that leads to his downfall
- 12. the study of the meaning and nature of life
- 14. conquered the Greeks during the Greek Dark Ages
- 15. the way of life for a group of people
- 16. Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
- 19. wrote The Republic, which called for a king that would care for his subjects wisely
- 21. new military tactic developed by the Greeks
- 22. the leader of Athens during it's Golden Age
- 23. drama that usually poked fun of politicians in Athens
- 26. having to do with Greek culture
- 27. both herodotus and thucydides are known as the _________ of history
- 30. early residents of Greece whose civilization was wiped out by natural disasters