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| 265655779 | Achaemenid Empire | First great Persian empire (558-330 B.C.E.), which began under Cyrus and reached its peak under Darius. | 0 | |
| 265655780 | Ahura Mazda | Main god of Zoroastrianism who represented truth and goodness and was perceived to be in an eternal struggle with the malign spirit Angra Mainyu | 1 | |
| 265655781 | Cambyses | A strong leader with military strategies who was called a madman and was non-tolerant to the civilizations he conquered. He conquered Egypt. | 2 | |
| 265655782 | Darius | Last leader of the Achaemenid empire. He was a wise and non-tolerant leader who made governments to run the cities in the empire and was more important as an administrator. | 3 | |
| 265683438 | Indo Europeans | Series of tribes from Southern Russia who, over a period of millenia, embarked on a series of migrations from India through western Europe. | 4 | |
| 265683439 | Cyrus | First leader of the Achaemenid empire. He was a powerful leader and tolerant leader whose conquest of cities led to the first Persian empire. | 5 | |
| 265683440 | Macedon | A frontier state north of the Greek peninsula. | 6 | |
| 265683441 | Magi | Those who preserved the teachings of Zarathustra in writing. | 7 | |
| 265683442 | Medes | Indo-European branch that settled in northern Persia and eventually fell to another branch, the Persians, in the sixth century. | 8 | |
| 265683443 | Parthians | Parthian Persian dynasty that reached its peak under Mithradates and began right after the Seleucus dynasty fell. | 9 | |
| 265683444 | Perseopolis | New capital of the Persian empire established under the reign of Darius in 520 B.C.E. | 10 | |
| 265683445 | Qanat | Persian underground canal. | 11 | |
| 265683446 | Sasanids | Later powerful Persian dynasty (224-651 B.C.E.) that would reach its peak under Shapur 1 and later fall to Arabic expansion. | 12 | |
| 265683447 | Satraps | Persian administrators, usually members of the royal family, who governed a satrapy. | 13 | |
| 265683448 | Seleucids | Persian empire (323-83 B.C.E.) founded by Seleucus after the death of Alexander the Great. | 14 | |
| 265683449 | The Persian Empire | An empire of the Persians made and led by Cyrus and reached its peak under Darius once it was attacked by Alexander of Macedon. | 15 | |
| 265683450 | Zarathustra | Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism. | 16 | |
| 265683451 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion based on the teaching of the sixth century-B.C.E. prophet Zarathustra; its emphasis on the duality of good and evil and on the role of individuals in determining their own fate would influence later religions. | 17 |
