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| 4844380210 | Cyrus | Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire between 550 and 530 BCE he conquered Media, Lydia, and babylon | 0 | |
| 4844452928 | Darius I | Third ruler of the Persian Empire. He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes. | 1 | |
| 4844468906 | Satrap | the governor of a province in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, often relative of the king. | 2 | |
| 4844483398 | Persepolis | A complex of palaces, reception halls, and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings. | 3 | |
| 4844495845 | Zoroastrianism | A religion originating in ancient Iran that became the official religion of Achaemendis. | 4 | |
| 4844585285 | Polis | The Greek term for a city-state. | 5 | |
| 4844594321 | Hoptile | A heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the closepacked phalanx formation. | 6 | |
| 4844606000 | Tyrant | The term the Greeks used to describe someone who seized and held power in violation of the normal procedures and traditions of the community. | 7 | |
| 4844613509 | Democracy | system of government in which all "citizens" (however defined) have equal political and legal rights. | 8 | |
| 4844709582 | Sacrifice | A gift given to a deity | 9 | |
| 4844718230 | Herodotus | Heir to the technique of historia developed by Greeks in the late Archaic period. | 10 | |
| 4844723856 | Pericles | Aristocratic leader who guided by Greeks in the late Archaic period. | 11 | |
| 4844739260 | Persians Wars | Conflicts between the Greek city-states and the Persian empire. | 12 | |
| 4844745173 | Tireme | Greek and Phoenician warships of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE | 13 | |
| 4844753506 | Socrates | Athenian philosopher who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions. | 14 | |
| 4844783235 | Peloponnese War | A protracted and costly conflict between the Athenian and Spartan alliance systems that convulsed most of the Greek world. | 15 | |
| 4844810007 | Alexander | King of Macedonia in northern Greece. | 16 | |
| 4844814246 | Hellenistic Age | Historians' term of the era in which Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the great | 17 | |
| 4844822701 | Ptolemies | The Macedonian dynasty ,descended from one of Alexander the greats officers. | 18 | |
| 4844831781 | Alexandria | City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander. | 19 |
