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| 7220626516 | Turning point in the rise of the Persian Empire | Victory of Cyrus over Lydia | 0 | |
| 7220627360 | Leader of the Lydians, who fell to Cyrus | Croesus | 1 | |
| 7220628621 | Persian rulers relied on techniques from | Mesopotamians. | 2 | |
| 7220629530 | Persian empires in chronological order | Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanids | 3 | |
| 7220630616 | Medes and Persians | Originally Indo- European tribes | 4 | |
| 7220631052 | Founder of Achaemenids | Cyrus | 5 | |
| 7220632376 | Persian emperor of Cambyess captured | Egypt | 6 | |
| 7220633066 | Greatest Achaemenid emperor | Darius | 7 | |
| 7220634076 | Pasargadae | the capital of the Persian empire before Persepolis | 8 | |
| 7220634948 | Population of Achaemenid under Darius | 35 million | 9 | |
| 7220635551 | Capital of Persian empire constructed by Darius | Persepolis | 10 | |
| 7220635738 | Satrapies were | Persian administrative and taxation districts | 11 | |
| 7220636568 | Ears and eyes of the king | Imperial Spies | 12 | |
| 7220637080 | Standardized government came from | Lydians | 13 | |
| 7220637732 | Empire that showed the greatest degree of toleration | Achaemenid | 14 | |
| 7220638576 | Persian king who regularized tax levies | Darius | 15 | |
| 7220639265 | Persian legal code | codified the laws of the subject people | 16 | |
| 7220640243 | Center of Persian communications network | Persian Royal Road | 17 | |
| 7220640564 | Quotes of Emperors | The Greek historian, Herodotus | 18 | |
| 7220640735 | Quanat | Persian underground canals | 19 | |
| 7220642577 | King who failed to follow normal Persian governing policy of toleration | Xerexes | 20 | |
| 7220643373 | Battle of Marathon | A Persian loss | 21 | |
| 7220644394 | Battle of Alexander of Macedon over the Persians was called | Guagamela | 22 | |
| 7220645407 | Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanid empires | employed a form of imperial administration copied from the Achaemenids | 23 | |
| 7220647940 | Empire comprising most of the old Achaemenid State that was taken by Alexander the Great | Seleucid empire | 24 | |
| 7220653708 | Seleucids were defeated by | the Romans | 25 | |
| 7220654791 | Which Iranian state followed the Achaemenids and rivaled the Seleucids in greatness? | Parthians | 26 | |
| 7220655589 | Greatest Parthian ruler | Mithradates | | 27 | |
| 7220656885 | Ctesiphon | A capital city of the Parthians on the Euphrates River near modern day Baghdad | 28 | |
| 7220657558 | Shaper | | The greatest Sassanid King | 29 | |
| 7220658637 | Sasanids were defeated by | Arab Warriors | 30 | |
| 7220659200 | Social structure of the Medes and Persians were similar to | Aryans in India | 31 | |
| 7220659577 | Gimillu | A slave who served the temple community and showed that slaves could make relations with powerful individuals who could protect them from enemies. | 32 | |
| 7220660436 | Zoroastrianism | Religion founded in Persia by Zarathrusta, main deity was Ahura Mazda, 6 lesser deities | 33 | |
| 7220661521 | Wise lord and evil spirit | Lord Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu | 34 | |
| 7220663341 | Gathas | Zoroastrian hymns believed to be compositions by Zarathrusta. | 35 | |
| 7220664635 | What parts of Zoroastrianism did not influence other religions? | View of material world as a place of temptation that had to be ignored | 36 | |
| 7220665787 | Zarathrusta viewed the material world | as a blessing that reflected the benevolent nature of Ahura Mazda | 37 | |
| 7220666846 | Good deeds and good thoughts were by | Zoroastrian Teachings | 38 |
