2. The ________, who lived on the island of Crete, developed a highly skilled civilization.

3. Minoans

4. _________ wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.

5. Homer

6. _________ is the supposed king of the Greek gods.

7. Zeus

8. An _________ is a hilltop fortress.

9. acropolis

10. The Battle of Salamis was a great defeat for the ____________ navy.

11. Persian

12. ____________ is rule by the few.

13. ____________ is rule by the few.

14. Oligarchy

15. Rule by the best is the type of government called ______________.

16. Aristocracy

17. ______________ is rule by the many or the common people.

18. Democracy

19. _____________ was the first tyrant of Athens.

20. Peisistratus

21. ___________ was a great Athenian statesman.

22. Pericles

23. ___________ was known for his merciless law code.

24. Draco

25. ____________ democracy allows voting citizens to elect people to rule for them.

26. Representative

27. _________________ was a great Greek physician.

28. Hippocrates

29. Phillip II was a ruler in _______________ before conquering nearly all of Greece.

30. Macedon

31. ____________ was Alexander’s tutor.

32. Aristotle

33. ______________ was known as the Greek “Father of History”.

34. Herodotus

35. The New Testament was written in ______________ Greek, the language of the common people.

36. Koine

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

38. Marathon

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

40. Leonidas

41. What was the first major naval battle in history?

42. Salamis