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| 8319645494 | The major early turning point in the rise of the Persian empire was the | Victory of Cyrus over Lydia | 0 | |
| 8319645495 | The leaders of the Lydians who fell to Cyrus was | Croesus | 1 | |
| 8319645496 | In organizing their empire, Persian rulers relied heavily on techniques of administration from the | Mesopotamians | 2 | |
| 8319645497 | Which of the following lists of Persian empires is correct chronologically? | Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanids | 3 | |
| 8319645498 | The Medes and Persians were originally | Indo-european | 4 | |
| 8319645499 | the founder of the Achaemenid empire was | Cyrus | 5 | |
| 8319645500 | In 525 B.C.E. the Persian emperor Cambyses captured | Egypt | 6 | |
| 8319645501 | The greatest of the Achaemenid emperors was | Darius | 7 | |
| 8319645502 | Pasargadae was | the capital of the persian empire before Persepolis | 8 | |
| 8319645503 | The population of the Achaemenid empire under Darius was | thirty five million | 9 | |
| 8319645504 | The magnificent capital of the Persian empire constructed by Darius was | Persepolis | 10 | |
| 8319645505 | Satrapies were | Persian administrative units | 11 | |
| 8319645506 | The Persian "eyes and ears of the king" | were spies | 12 | |
| 8319645507 | The classic Persian governmental approach was | an enlightened and tolerant one | 13 | |
| 8319645508 | Darius picked up the idea of standardized government-issued coinage from the | Lydians | 14 | |
| 8319645509 | Which of the following empires normally displayed the greatest degree of toleration toward its subject peoples | Achaemenid | 15 | |
| 8319645510 | The Persian king who regularized tax levies and standardized laws was | Darius | 16 | |
| 8319645511 | The easternmost point of Darius's empire was | Gandhara | 17 | |
| 8319645512 | The Persian legal code was designed to | codify the laws of the subject peoples | 18 | |
| 8319645513 | The center of the Persian communications network was | the Royal Road | 19 | |
| 8319645514 | Who used the words "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" to describe the Persian courier service? | Herodotus | 20 | |
| 8319645515 | The qanats were | Persian underground canals | 21 | |
| 8319645516 | For his decision to allow them to return to their capital city and rebuild their temple | Jews | 22 | |
| 8319645517 | The king who failed to follow the normal Persian governing policy of toleration was | Xerxes | 23 | |
| 8319645518 | The battle of Marathon in 490 B.C.E. proved to be | a Persian loss | 24 | |
| 8319645519 | The decisive victory of Alexander of Macedon over the Persians was called the battle of | Gaugamela | 25 | |
| 8319645520 | The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sassanid empires | employed a form of imperial administration copied from the Achaemenids | 26 | |
| 8319645521 | The empire comprising most of the old Achaemenid state that was carved off by one of Alexander of Macedon's generals was the | Seleucid | 27 | |
| 8319645522 | The Seleucids were finally defeated in 83 B.C.E. by the | Romans | 28 | |
| 8319645523 | The Iranian state that followed the Achaemenids and that rivaled the Seleucids was the | Parthian | 29 | |
| 8319645524 | The greatest Parthian ruler was | Mithridates I | 30 | |
| 8319645525 | Ctesiphon was | The capital of the Parthian and Sasanid empires | 31 | |
| 8319645526 | Shapur I was | the greatest Sasanid king | 32 | |
| 8319645527 | The Sasanids were defeated in 651 B.C.E. by | Arab warriors | 33 | |
| 8319645528 | The social structure of the Medes and Persians was originally very similar to | the Aryans | 34 | |
| 8319645529 | Gimillu was | a slave associated with the temple in Uruk | 35 | |
| 8319645530 | Zoroastrianism was | very strongly monotheistic | 36 | |
| 8319645531 | Zarathustra talked about the battle between the "wise lord" Ahura Mazda and the evil spirit | Angra Mainyu | 37 | |
| 8319645532 | The Gathas were | Zarathustra's compositions | 38 | |
| 8319645533 | Which of the following basic tenets of Zoroastrianism did not influence later religions? | The view of the material world as a place of temptation that had to be ignored | 39 | |
| 8319645534 | Zarathustra viewed the material world | as a gift from Ahura Mazda that should be enjoyed | 40 | |
| 8319645535 | The words "good words, good thoughts, good deeds" were used to sum up the view of morality of the | Zoroastrians | 41 |
