Traditions and Encounters Volume I Chapter 7. The Persian Empire: Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanid empires.
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| 92664149 | When ________ died, chief generals fought among themselves and struggled to take over his conquered realms, including the ________ Empire. | Alexander of Macedon/Alexander the Great / Persian | |
| 92664150 | _________ dominated the territories of the former ___________ empire. He was commander of an elite guard corps in Alexander's army. He ruled from _________ to ________. | Seleucus / Achaemenid / 305 BCE to 281 BCE | |
| 92664151 | __________ often revolted against the Seleucid rule and the Seleucids lost their holdings in ________ Iran. Eventualy, seminomadic __________ took over Iran during the 3rd century BCE. | Satraps / Northern / Parthians | |
| 92664152 | In _______ BCE, the _________ conquerors put an end to the Seleucid Empire. | 83 BCE / Romans | |
| 92664153 | The Parthians had occupied the region of ________ Iran since Achaemenid times and retained many of the customs and traditions of ________ peoples from the steppes of central Asia. | eastern / nomadic | |
| 92664154 | The Parthians had a __________ government and organized themselves politically through a federation of leaders. | decentralized | |
| 92664155 | The Parthians discovered that when they fed their ______ on ________, they grew stronger than if they grazed on the steppes. ________ was not available to them. | horses / alfalfa / Feed grain | |
| 92664156 | These stronger animals could support heavily armed __________ outfitted with _________ armor. | warriors / metal | |
| 92664157 | Who was the Parthians' greatest conqueror? | Mithradates I who came to the throne about 171 BCE. | |
| 92664158 | The Parthians governed through ________ and took the ideas from the Achaemenids of administration and _________. | satraps / taxation | |
| 92664159 | The Parthians presided over a powerful empire between _________ and the ________ for about _______ centuries. | India and the Mediterranean / 3 | |
| 92664160 | __________ pressure weakened the Parthian empire but did not stood danger of collapsing. Early in the ________ century BCE, __________ brought the empire down. | Roman / 3rd / internal rebellion | |
| 92664161 | Imperial rule continued after the Parthian Empire with the __________ Empire, whose leaders claimed to be _________ of the Achaemenids. | Sasanid / descendents | |
| 92664162 | The Sasanids toppled the Parthians in _________, and ruled until ________. | 224 BCE to 651 CE | |
| 92664163 | The Sasanid _________ capital was located in _________. They provided strong rule from Parthia to _________. | cosmopolitan / Ctesiphon / Mesopotamia | |
| 92664164 | Sasanid merchants traded with peoples both _______ and _______. What crops did they introduce in Iran that came from India and China? | east and west / rice, sugar cane, citrus fruits, eggplant, and cotton. | |
| 92664165 | _________ reigned from _______ to 272 CE over the Sasanids. He stabilized their western frontier and created a series of ________ states between themselves and the ________ empire. | Shapur I / 239 CE to 272 CE / buffer / Roman | |
| 92664166 | Continual conflicts between the Sasanids and the ________, _________ , and __________ empires weakened the Sasanid empire and it came to an end in _________. The ________ empire killed the last the Sasanid ruler and overran his realm; incorporating it into their rapidly expanding empire. | Kushan, Roman, and Byzantine empires / 651 CE. / Islamic |
