217867084 | Cyrus | Founder of the Achaemendid Persian Empire | 0 | |
217867085 | Darius I | Third ruler of the Persian Empire | 1 | |
217867086 | satrap | Governor of a Persian province | 2 | |
217867087 | Persepolis | Capital complex with palaces, reception halls, and treasury buildings | 3 | |
217867088 | Zoroastrianism | Worship of god, Ahuramazda | 4 | |
217867089 | polis | Urban center and rural territory it controlled | 5 | |
217867090 | hoplite | Heavily armored infantrymen who fought in close formation | 6 | |
217867091 | tyrant | Person who seized and kept power in violation of the normal political traditions of the community | 7 | |
217867092 | democracy | Political power of all adult males | 8 | |
217867093 | sacrifice | Gift given to deity | 9 | |
217867094 | Heredotus | Heir to the technique of historia developed by Greeks in the late Archaic period | 10 | |
217867095 | Perciles | Aristocratic 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 War | 11 | |
217867096 | Persian Wars | Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire | 12 | |
217867097 | trireme | Greek and Phoenician warship of the fifth and fourth centuries | 13 | |
217867098 | Socrates | Athenian philosopher who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior | 14 | |
217867099 | Peloponnesian War | A protracted and costly conflict between the Athenian and Spartan alliance systems that convulsed most of the Greek world | 15 | |
217867100 | Alexander | King of Macedonia in northern Greece | 16 | |
217867101 | Hellenistic Age | Historians' 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 Great | 17 | |
217867102 | Ptolemies | The Macedonian dynasty that ruled Egypt for three centuries | 18 | |
217867103 | Alexandria | City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander | 19 |
The Earth and its Peoples: Chapter 4 Flashcards
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