Across
- 3. a defensive alliance formed by Athens to prevent another Persian invasion
- 5. Greek god of the sun
- 7. a beautiful temple to Athena
- 9. lover of wisdom
- 11. a hilltop fortress that served as a seat of government and religion
- 14. the Greek city-state
- 15. a large group of foot soldiers trained to charge the enemy as a group
- 16. rule by the “best”
- 17. rule by one
Down
- 1. rule by a few rather than one or many; rule by a few rich men
- 2. Greek
- 3. rule by the many or the common people
- 4. the Greek marketplace
- 6. king of all the Greek gods
- 7. a league formed between Sparta and other Greek cities
- 8. a bad form of one-man rule
- 10. the common laborers who farmed the land for the ruling class
- 12. Plato’s writings
- 13. a government in which the people themselves make the big decisions directly, rather than idirectly through representatives