Greece and Iran, 1000-30 B.C.E.
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| 126332618 | Darius I | Persian noble man, related to royal family, becomes king when Cambyses dies, | |
| 126332619 | Persepolis | a complex of palaces reception halls, and treasury buildings erected by the persion king Darius I and Xerxes in the persian homeland | |
| 126332620 | Zoroastrianism | religion where they follow under the great god named Ahuramazda | |
| 126332621 | Hoplites | heavily armored infantrymen who fought in close formation. | |
| 126332622 | Democracy | the exercise of political power by all free adult males | |
| 126332623 | sacrifice | central ritual of Greek religion | |
| 126332624 | Herodotus | wrote and published histories | |
| 126332625 | Pericles | aristocratic who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens | |
| 126332626 | Persian War | two Persian attacks on Greece | |
| 126332627 | trireme | a sleek, fast vessel powered by 170 rowers | |
| 126332628 | Socrates | philosopher brought to trail for corruption of the peace | |
| 126332629 | Peloponnesian war | fight between Athenian and Spartan alliance systems encompassed most of Greek world | |
| 126332630 | Alexander | became king when his father, Philip, passed. His purpose was to exact revenge for Xerxes's invasion a century and half before | |
| 126332631 | Hellenistic Age | epoch ushered by the conquest of Alexander | |
| 126332632 | Ptolemies | any of the kings of the Macedonian dynasty that ruled Egypt | |
| 126332633 | Alexandria | first new city laid out for Alexander himself |
