Ancient Greece Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. 2nd oldest toy in the world
  2. 3. almost entirely focused on war and how to fight
  3. 6. A great philosopher
  4. 7. This period lasted from the death of Alexander the Great until 31 BC when Rome defeated Egypt at the Battle of Actium
  5. 8. an ancient Macedonian ruler and one of history's greatest military minds
  6. 11. the original word for Greece
  7. 12. a Greek hero who ran 150 miles from Marathon to Sparta to get help against the Persians
  8. 13. a civilization that dominated much of the Mediterranean thousands of years ago
Down
  1. 1. a citadel or fortified part of an ancient Greek city
  2. 4. This period included the start of the Olympic Games
  3. 5. copied much of the Greek culture
  4. 7. Writer of the Odyssey and the Illiad
  5. 9. This period ended with the rise and then the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC
  6. 10. Athens and Sparta were rivals and fought each other in these