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- 3. Defense of the pass sufficiently delayed the Persians and saved the city of Athens
- 6. Greek historian and geographer
- 7. God of Zoroastrianism
- 8. Body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files
- 9. Land battle in which the Athenians, in a single afternoon, repulsed the first Persian invasion of Greece
- 11. Invaded Greece but Greece prevailed
- 12. Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion
- 13. Athenian messenger who ran from Athens to Sparta
- 15. Athenian politician and general
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- 1. Citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields
- 2. Spartan king who stood against the invading Persian army at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece
- 4. Naval war where the Greeks defeated the Persian fleet
- 5. Allowed all subjects to participate in governance
- 10. narrow passage between the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara
- 14. A governor of an ancient Persian province