Across
- 3. A government in which a few wealthy citizens hold power over the rest
- 6. The body of water between the Greek islands
- 9. The people who invaded Greece in about 1100 BC and introduced Greece to iron
- 10. The fort at the center of each city-state in which people could take refuge in an attack
- 11. The Greek city-state that was on the coast on the mainland of Greece that had great education and developed democracy
- 13. The Greek name for the letter A
- 14. The people who were the first to develop civilization in the Aegean region from 2500 to 1450 BC
- 15. A member of a political community with rights and responsibilities
- 17. Soldiers of the Greek city-states who fought on foot with a spear, a short sword, and a shield
- 20. A government in which all citizens share in running the government
- 21. A military formation in which soldiers would fight shoulder to shoulder with their shields raised to protect from arrows
- 22. The age that Spartan boys had to enter the military
Down
- 1. The Greek word for a city-state
- 2. The people who moved to Greece from central Asia and destroyed the Minoan civilization
- 4. The site on the island of Crete that was once the palace of king Minos
- 5. Someone who seizes power and rules with total authority
- 6. The place outside the acropolis used as a marketplace and where people could gather and debate issues
- 7. Five men who served as elected councilmen in Sparta who helped govern the city-state
- 8. The people who lived in Greece beginning in 750 BC who developed the Greek alphabet
- 12. The Greek city-state located on Peloponnesus that was a heavily militarily inclined society
- 15. A settlement in a new territory that has close ties to its homeland
- 16. A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides
- 18. The ruler who ended the farmer rebellion in Athens and helped begin democracy
- 19. Storytellers of Greece who passed down oral tradition