Across
- 2. The king of Persia at the time of the Battle of Thermopylae
- 5. A battle in which Athenians led by Miltiades surrounded the Persians on three sides
- 7. An Athenian navy leader who tricked the Persians in the Battle of Salamis
- 8. The city-state that the Persians burned after the Battle of Thermopylae
- 9. The final battle of the Greco-Persian War
- 10. A term for political friendships
- 11. The Persians learned how to attack the Greeks from behind because of only one Greek...
- 13. A Greek military formation of spears and overlapping shields
- 17. Particularly important when deciding where to fight in order to win
- 18. The number of days the Spartans and their allies fought against the Persians
- 20. Messengers sent from Persia demanded tributes of these from the city-states in Greece
- 22. Name of a vast empire in Asia and Europe
Down
- 1. The leader of the Spartan forces at the Battle of Thermopylae
- 3. The name of the type of warship used by Greeks and Persians
- 4. The plan a general develops before fighting
- 6. The place where the Persians created floating bridges to cross into Greece
- 12. The battle that was fought mostly on the Aegean Sea using boats
- 14. King of the Persian Empire at the beginning of the Persian War
- 15. Two city-states that allied together to fight a common enemy
- 16. This happened before the Greco-Persian War and made the Persians want to attack Athens
- 19. Themistocles pretended to have his boats __ towards Athens, drawing the Persians closer
- 21. According to legend,Pheidippides ran 26.2 miles to Athens to shout this
