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The Earth and its Peoples: Chapter 4 Flashcards

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217867084CyrusFounder of the Achaemendid Persian Empire0
217867085Darius IThird ruler of the Persian Empire1
217867086satrapGovernor of a Persian province2
217867087PersepolisCapital complex with palaces, reception halls, and treasury buildings3
217867088ZoroastrianismWorship of god, Ahuramazda4
217867089polisUrban center and rural territory it controlled5
217867090hopliteHeavily armored infantrymen who fought in close formation6
217867091tyrantPerson who seized and kept power in violation of the normal political traditions of the community7
217867092democracyPolitical power of all adult males8
217867093sacrificeGift given to deity9
217867094HeredotusHeir to the technique of historia developed by Greeks in the late Archaic period10
217867095PercilesAristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens, supervised construction of the Acropolis, and pursued a policy of imperial expansion that lead to the Peloponnesian War11
217867096Persian WarsConflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire12
217867097triremeGreek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries13
217867098SocratesAthenian philosopher who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior14
217867099Peloponnesian WarA protracted and costly conflict between the Athenian and Spartan alliance systems that convulsed most of the Greek world15
217867100AlexanderKing of Macedonia in northern Greece16
217867101Hellenistic AgeHistorians' term for the era, usually dated 323-30 B.C.E., in which Greek culture spread across western Asia and Northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great17
217867102PtolemiesThe Macedonian dynasty that ruled Egypt for three centuries18
217867103AlexandriaCity on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander19

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