Across
- 3. A battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians and a runner ran 25 miles back to Athens to spread the news of victory.
- 4. Socrates's student. A believer in reason but not in democracy.
- 8. The leader of the Spartan army and thus the Spartan king
- 9. War in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies
- 10. The age when Greeks were interested in arts, science, and religion and progressed in all three
- 11. alliance league between Athens and many of its allied cities.
- 12. a method of teaching by question and answer
- 13. Unemployment, the Peloponnesian War, and the plague caused the _____ of the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta
- 15. The hundreds of Spartans that joined others to slow down the Persian Empire army at a mountain pass for 3 days that enabled the Greek Alliance army time to organize, regroup , and plan to defeat Persia.
- 16. a city-state in ancient Greece; the capital of modern-day Greece
- 17. naval battle where the Greek forces defeated the Persians
Down
- 1. logical thinking
- 2. A bad ____ is what Socrates was accused of by his enemies and cost him his life
- 3. A power and army to the North that became a threat to Greece after the Peloponnesian War
- 4. A deadly disease that spreads rapidly from person to person. It hit Athens hard.
- 5. a hired soldier
- 6. a person who studies truth and knowledge
- 7. One of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers and wrote over 170 books on multiple subjects.
- 12. Greek thinker who explored truth and justice and developed a method of questioning and answering
- 14. a Greek city-state that defeated Sparta after the Peloponnesian War.