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