Across
- 2. lawmaking body
- 4. rule by a hereditary landowning elite
- 7. heart of the Hellenistic world, located in Egypt
- 9. areas dedicated to honor gods and goddesses
- 11. a massive tactical formation of heavily armed foot soldiers
- 18. “Father of history” – visited many lands and collected information from people who remembered the actual events he chronicled
- 22. Socrates Student
- 24. humorous plays that mocked people or customs
- 25. a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena
- 26. rule by a small group of wealthy elite
- 28. rational thinking
- 30. poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
- 31. ancient Greece city-state ruled by a Democratic government
- 32. ancient Greece city-state where the Dorians settled, had a brutal system of strict control
- 35. Athenian stonemason and philosopher, known widely for his teaching method still popular today
- 36. studied the causes of illnesses and looked for cures
- 38. people who gained power by force
- 39. narrow water passages
- 40. large palace where the rulers of Crete lived
- 41. the process of citizens voting to banish, or send away, a public figure whom they saw as a threat to their democracy
- 43. to absorb or adopt another culture
Down
- 1. wise and skillful leader of Athens, led during the Golden Age of Athens
- 3. a free native or resident of a town or city
- 5. Plato’s Student
- 6. fixed salary
- 8. citizens take part in day-to-day affairs of the government
- 10. highest and most fortified point within a Greek city-state
- 12. the murder of a public figure, usually for political reasons
- 13. formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another’s defense
- 14. “lovers of wisdom”
- 15. derived a formula to calculate the relationship between the sides of a right triangle
- 16. THE GREAT tutored by Aristotle, conquered Persia, put on the throne at only 20 years old
- 17. a group of people who have the authority to make a decision in a legal case
- 19. II Alexander the Greats father, assassinated at his daughters wedding, set up Greece to one day conquer Persia
- 20. a government ruled by the people
- 21. city-state in ancient Greece that was typically built on two levels, made up of a major city or town and its surrounding country-side
- 23. the art of skillful speaking
- 27. applied principles of physics to make practical inventions
- 29. sun-centered
- 33. watercolor paintings done on wet plaster
- 34. a government in which a hereditary ruler exercises central power
- 37. the Myceneans are best known for the _________
- 42. plays that told stories of human suffering that usually ended in disaster