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| 7097678318 | Royal Road | Spanned some 1,500 miles across the empire |  | 0 |
| 7097678319 | Socratic Method | Continually asking questions to systematically clarify another person's ideas and to identify the core of them |  | 1 |
| 7097678428 | Golden Mean | Emphasis on moderation |  | 2 |
| 7097678429 | empiricism | Trusting what one learned from observation and evidence of the senses, rather than emphasizing intuition or religious beliefs |  | 3 |
| 7097679064 | syncretic | A religion that combines several traditions |  | 4 |
| 7097679307 | Zoroastrianism | Based on belief in only one god, also the religion believed in a god of darkness and other lesser gods, none of which were to be worshiped |  | 5 |
| 7097679308 | qanat | An underground canal first built by the ancient Persians |  | 6 |
| 7097679309 | monarchies | A king ruled the state |  | 7 |
| 7097679768 | aristocracy | Nobles ruled |  | 8 |
| 7097679769 | oligarchy | A few wealthy landowners and merchants ruled |  | 9 |
| 7097679770 | tyrants | Leaders who seized power with the people's support |  | 10 |
| 7097680003 | democracy | All citizens participated |  | 11 |
| 7097680349 | representative democracy | Citizens elect leaders to represent them and give those leaders power to make laws and govern |  | 12 |
| 7097680004 | direct democracy | A government in which all citizens could vote directly on laws and other issues in a large assembly |  | 13 |
| 7097681082 | Persian Wars | Conquered Greek areas rebelled in campaigns |  | 14 |
| 7097681178 | Hellenistic Period | The time between the death of Alexander the great and the rise of the roman domination |  | 15 |
| 7097681179 | hoplites | Infantry members |  | 16 |
| 7097681180 | archons | A council of nobles |  | 17 |
| 7097681185 | helots | Slaves |  | 18 |
| 7097681668 | satraps | A ruler of a province who was responsible to the emperor |  | 19 |
| 7097681669 | aristocrats | The rulers of an aristocratic society |  | 20 |
| 7097681670 | merchants | People who buy and sell goods |  | 21 |
| 7097682140 | caravanserai | Combination inns and markets for people traveling the Royal Road by camel caravan |  | 22 |
| 7097682607 | Common currency | Same currency across the empire |  | 23 |
