UNIT 5 VOCABULARY

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