CC Mediterranean history dates quiz

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Across
  1. 2. The Greek games which drew people from across the Mediterranean and are early evidence for a competitive, culturally diverse culture.
  2. 5. This period of decline in population and trade in the Aegean from 1100-800 BCE is known as the ____ age.
  3. 6. First discovered by the Phoenicians, this invention made writing so much more efficient!
  4. 8. Also known as the 'Neolithic revolution', it began around 12-10,000 BCE in the Fertile Crescent
  5. 9. The land between the Tigris and the Euphrates
  6. 11. The 'mother' city of the Phoenicians
  7. 12. Linear A (undeciphered from Crete) and Linear B (Greek language from Mycenae) are both examples of what?
  8. 13. The evidence suggests that they were first developed around 8-7000 BCE
Down
  1. 1. This palace culture flourished around 2000-1500 BCE (possibly for longer) on Crete
  2. 3. This mainland Greek culture flourished around 1600-1100 BCE were the first speakers of Greek, so far as we know.
  3. 4. The period of ancient Greek history from 510-323 BCE.
  4. 7. This period of history precedes the Iron Age (when humans discover how to create Iron) and lasts from around 3500 - 1200 BCE.
  5. 9. This was the first in series of battles between the Greeks and the Persians, and took place in 490 BCE
  6. 10. The period of ancient Greek history from 776 - 510 BCE.