Across
- 2. city-state in ancient Greece
- 4. rational thinking
- 5. absorb or adopt another culture
- 7. narrow water passage
- 9. practice used in ancient Greece to banish or send away a public figure who threatened democracy
- 12. in ancient Greece, a massive tactical formation of heavily armed foot soldiers
- 14. military conflict around 1250 BC between Mycenae and Troy
- 16. gov't headed by a privileged minority or upper class
- 18. ruler who gained power by force
- 20. gov't in which ruling power belongs to a few people
- 21. colorful painting completed on wet plaster
- 22. altar, chapel, or other sacred place
- 24. Athenian statesmen during Athens golden age
- 25. someone who seeks to understand and explain life
- 26. a form of gov't in which the state is ruled by a monarch
- 27. city-state in ancient Greece where democracy evolved
- 28. A play that mocked people or social customs
Down
- 1. legal member of a country
- 3. Philosopher who sought truth by questioning
- 6. city-state in ancient Greece settled by the Dorians and built as a military state
- 8. highest and most fortified point w/in a Greek city-state
- 10. author of the Iliad and Odyssey
- 11. group of people w/ authority to make a decision in a legal case
- 13. student of Plato who tutored Alexander the Great
- 15. art of skillful speaking
- 17. city in ancient Crete that was the principle center of Minoan civilization
- 19. A play about human suffering
- 23. based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe
- 24. student of Socrates and found of the Academy