The who lived on the island of Crete

� The ____, who lived on the island of Crete, developed a highly skilled civilization.

� Minoans

� _____ wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

� Homer

� _____ is the supposed king of the Greek gods.

� Zeus

� An _____ is a hilltop fortress.

� acropolis

� The Battle of Salamis was a great defeat for the ______ navy.

� Persian

� ______ is rule by the few.

� ______ is rule by the few.

� Oligarchy

� Rule by the best is the type of government called _______.

� Aristocracy

� _______ is rule by the many or the common people.

� Democracy

� _______ was the first tyrant of Athens.

� Peisistratus

� ______ was a great Athenian statesman.

� Pericles

� ______ was known for his merciless law code.

� Draco

� ______ democracy allows voting citizens to elect people to rule for them.

� Representative

� _________ was a great Greek physician.

� Hippocrates

� Phillip II was a ruler in ________ before conquering nearly all of Greece.

� Macedon

� ______ was Alexander’s tutor.

� Aristotle

� _______ was known as the Greek “Father of History”.

� Herodotus

� The New Testament was written in _______ Greek, the language of the common people.

� Koine

� Where did the Persians suffer their first great defeat at the hand of the Athenians?

� Marathon

� Name the Spartan leader who, with a small band of Spartan soldiers, held off the Persians at Thermopylae.

� Leonidas

� What was the first major naval battle in history?

� Salamis