mrs. hall ch.7 vocab quiz
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| 82338698 | achaemenid dynasty | ruled in Persia from Cyrus I to Darius III from 553 BCE-330 BCE | 0 | |
| 82338699 | ahura mazda | main god of zoroastrianism who represented truth and goodness and was percieved to be in an eternal struggle with the malign spirit Angra Mainyu | 1 | |
| 82338700 | parthians | persian dynasty that reached its peak under Mithradates 1 | 2 | |
| 82338701 | sasanids | Later powerful Persian dynasty (224-651) that would reach its peak under Shapur I and later fall to Arabic expansion. | 3 | |
| 82338702 | satraps | persain administraters, usually members of the royal family,who governed a satrapy | 4 | |
| 82338703 | zarathustra | Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism (circa 628-551 BC) | 5 | |
| 82338704 | zoroastrianism | dual gods of equal power to form early monotheism; Persian; cosmic struggle over good and bad; those that do good go to heaven and bad go to hell; influenced Judaism and Christianity | 6 | |
| 82338705 | darius | The great king of Persia. He was able to become a king after a year of a civil war following the death of someone. He is responsible for the expansion of Persia. He made a province in western India and expanded Persia as far north as Macedonia | 7 | |
| 82338706 | free and unfree labor | free classes which contained bulk of persian society received income that temples made from agriculture processes; slaves worked as domestic servants or skilled laborers in households of wealthy and on constrution projects | 8 |
