World History Topic 5

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Across
  1. 2. city-state in ancient Greece
  2. 4. rational thinking
  3. 5. absorb or adopt another culture
  4. 7. narrow water passage
  5. 9. practice used in ancient Greece to banish or send away a public figure who threatened democracy
  6. 12. in ancient Greece, a massive tactical formation of heavily armed foot soldiers
  7. 14. military conflict around 1250 BC between Mycenae and Troy
  8. 16. gov't headed by a privileged minority or upper class
  9. 18. ruler who gained power by force
  10. 20. gov't in which ruling power belongs to a few people
  11. 21. colorful painting completed on wet plaster
  12. 22. altar, chapel, or other sacred place
  13. 24. Athenian statesmen during Athens golden age
  14. 25. someone who seeks to understand and explain life
  15. 26. a form of gov't in which the state is ruled by a monarch
  16. 27. city-state in ancient Greece where democracy evolved
  17. 28. A play that mocked people or social customs
Down
  1. 1. legal member of a country
  2. 3. Philosopher who sought truth by questioning
  3. 6. city-state in ancient Greece settled by the Dorians and built as a military state
  4. 8. highest and most fortified point w/in a Greek city-state
  5. 10. author of the Iliad and Odyssey
  6. 11. group of people w/ authority to make a decision in a legal case
  7. 13. student of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great
  8. 15. art of skillful speaking
  9. 17. city in ancient Crete that was the principle center of Minoan civilization
  10. 19. A play about human suffering
  11. 23. based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe
  12. 24. student of Socrates and found of the Academy