Across
- 4. a group of people lving in a new territory who have ties to a homeland
- 5. a military formation of foot soldiers close together armed with spears and shields
- 6. Greek-speaking people who conquered the Mycenaeans, leading to a 300-year Dark Age
- 8. a monotheistic religion that developed in early Persia; worshipped one supreme god Ahura Mazda
- 11. an expert who studies the past by examining objects that people have left behind
- 14. storytellers
- 16. a strait or narrow sea between two landmasses
- 17. a piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.
- 18. a government ruled by a few wealthy, powerful people
Down
- 1. a governor of a province in the Persian Empire
- 2. first Greek-speaking people; invaded Minoans; involved in Trojan War against Troy
- 3. a person who searches for wisdom or enlightenment
- 6. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
- 7. a city-state in ancient Greece.
- 9. early Greek reformer who broke the political power of Athens and freed debt-slaves.
- 10. a leader who held power through the use of force
- 11. the marketplace in ancient Greece
- 12. earliest Greek civilization; developed on the island of Crete in about 2000 B.C.
- 13. a group of ships sailing together with the same purpose and under the control of the same leader
- 15. the citizens of an ancient Greek state that believed in war and physical activity