UNIT 5 VOCAB

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Across
  1. 2. lawmaking body
  2. 4. rule by a hereditary landowning elite
  3. 7. heart of the Hellenistic world, located in Egypt
  4. 9. areas dedicated to honor gods and goddesses
  5. 11. a massive tactical formation of heavily armed foot soldiers
  6. 18. “Father of history” – visited many lands and collected information from people who remembered the actual events he chronicled
  7. 22. Socrates Student
  8. 24. humorous plays that mocked people or customs
  9. 25. a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena
  10. 26. rule by a small group of wealthy elite
  11. 28. rational thinking
  12. 30. poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
  13. 31. ancient Greece city-state ruled by a Democratic government
  14. 32. ancient Greece city-state where the Dorians settled, had a brutal system of strict control
  15. 35. Athenian stonemason and philosopher, known widely for his teaching method still popular today
  16. 36. studied the causes of illnesses and looked for cures
  17. 38. people who gained power by force
  18. 39. narrow water passages
  19. 40. large palace where the rulers of Crete lived
  20. 41. the process of citizens voting to banish, or send away, a public figure whom they saw as a threat to their democracy
  21. 43. to absorb or adopt another culture
Down
  1. 1. wise and skillful leader of Athens, led during the Golden Age of Athens
  2. 3. a free native or resident of a town or city
  3. 5. Plato’s Student
  4. 6. fixed salary
  5. 8. citizens take part in day-to-day affairs of the government
  6. 10. highest and most fortified point within a Greek city-state
  7. 12. the murder of a public figure, usually for political reasons
  8. 13. formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another’s defense
  9. 14. “lovers of wisdom”
  10. 15. derived a formula to calculate the relationship between the sides of a right triangle
  11. 16. THE GREAT tutored by Aristotle, conquered Persia, put on the throne at only 20 years old
  12. 17. a group of people who have the authority to make a decision in a legal case
  13. 19. II Alexander the Greats father, assassinated at his daughters wedding, set up Greece to one day conquer Persia
  14. 20. a government ruled by the people
  15. 21. city-state in ancient Greece that was typically built on two levels, made up of a major city or town and its surrounding country-side
  16. 23. the art of skillful speaking
  17. 27. applied principles of physics to make practical inventions
  18. 29. sun-centered
  19. 33. watercolor paintings done on wet plaster
  20. 34. a government in which a hereditary ruler exercises central power
  21. 37. the Myceneans are best known for the _________
  22. 42. plays that told stories of human suffering that usually ended in disaster