| A | B |
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| Achilles | Greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan War and invulnerable aside from his heel |
| Paris | Cowardly Trojan Prince who ran away with Helen |
| Helen | Considered the most beautiful woman in the world. Ran away (kidnapped by) Paris |
| Hector | Older brother of Paris, considered the greatest Trojan warrior |
| Walls | The Greeks were unable to break through the ___ of Troy |
| Troy | Greek army entered the city of ___ and burned the city to the ground, ending the war |
| Mountains | Geographical feature which made farming difficult in Greece |
| Trade | Greece mostly obtained materials through ___ |
| Polis | City-state, fundamental political unit in Ancient Greece |
| Democracy | Government in which decisions are made directly by the people |
| Phalanx | Group of soldiers standing side by side holding a spear and a shield |
| Persia | The Greeks fought against ___ during the Persian Wars |
| Marathon | Outnumbered at ___, Athens defeated Persia and suffered less than 200 casualties |
| Athens | At Marathon, Persia loaded their ships at night and sailed for __ |
| Greece | Possessed better armor and fought for their independence during the Persian Wars |
| Persia | Possessed more soldiers and preferred bows and arrows to hand-to-hand combat |
| Runner | Pheidippides was an Athenian ___ who traveled to Sparta to unsuccessfully convince Sparta to fight at Marathon and also traveled from Marathon to Athens to tell Athens not to surrender |
| Thermopylae | Under Xerxes, Persia met no resistance as it marched down the eastern coast of Greece until they came to a narrow mountain pass at ___. No Spartans survived |
| Spartan | 300 ___ warriors, joined by a few hundred other Greeks, held the Persians back while other Greek forces retreated |
| Bow and arrow | Weapon used by the Persians to finish off the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae |
| Salamis | Naval battle in which the Greeks defeated the Persians |
| Burned | Before the Battle of Salamis, Athens was abandoned and later ___ by the Persians |
| city-states | 2,500 years ago, Greece was not a unified nation, but rather a collection of independent ___ |
| Million | At the Battle of Thermopylae, legends says the Persia had a quarter of a ___ soldier |
| Leonidas | Spartan king who fought bravely at the Battle of Thermopylae before being killed and beheaded |
| Xerxes | ___, was the king of Persia, who was eventually defeated during the Persian War (son of Darius the Great) |
| Seas | Greece was unified with the rest of the world by ___ |
| Horse | Greece built a giant wooden ___ as part of a trick to enter the walls of Troy |
| Iliad | Most of the information about the Trojan War comes from the epic poem the ___, credited to Homer |
| Democracy | Athens formed a new government where every citizen gets to help make decisions |
