Across
- 6. A long narrative poem/story telling of a hero's journey.
- 11. Land almost completely surrounded by water, but still connected to a larger piece of land. Greece is a peninsula.
- 12. A big peninsula in southern Greece where the city of Sparta was located.
- 13. A huge empire east of Greece (in today’s Iran). The Greeks and Persians fought in the Persian Wars.
- 14. First Greek-speaking people; invaded Minoans; dominated Greek world 1400 B.C. to 1200 B.C.; sea traders; lived in separate city-states; involved in Trojan War against Troy.
- 15. A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works.
Down
- 1. A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters.
- 2. A group of islands close together. Greece has many islands in the sea.
- 3. A city in Greece known for democracy (people voting), art, and learning. Many famous thinkers lived there.
- 4. A narrative handed down from the past, containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements.
- 5. The biggest island in Greece. It was home to the Minoans, one of the earliest Greek civilizations. The myth of the Minotaur comes from Crete.
- 7. Earliest Greek civilization that had developed on the island of Crete by 2000 B.C.
- 8. A poet, often a singer as well.
- 9. A narrow strip of land that connects two bigger pieces of land. The Isthmus of Corinth connects mainland Greece to the Peloponnese.
- 10. A city in Greece known for its strong warriors. Boys trained to be soldiers from a young age.
- 12. A member of a class of persons who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.