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| 7649477261 | Achaemenids | relating to the dynasty ruling in Persia from Cyrus I to Darius III (553-330 bc) | 0 | |
| 7649500620 | Aegean | it is a sea where ports and trade frequented and Darius in 525 BCE spread his empire all the way in the west | 1 | |
| 7649540504 | Ahura Mazda | he was the supreme god of the Zoroastrianism religion and the creator of all/ "the wise lord" | 2 | |
| 7649616753 | Alexander of Macedon | also known as "Alexander the Great" was a king of Persia in 334 BCE who helped expand the empire | 3 | |
| 7649683995 | Avesta | they started to preserve religious writings and the Sasanids started to compile holy scriptures in a holy book (Avesta) | 4 | |
| 7649729671 | Battle of Gaugamela | October 1, 331 BCE. The final meeting of Alexander the Great and King Darius III of Persia, in which Alexander was victorious | 5 | |
| 7673939989 | Battle of Marathon | Darius with the Persians mounted an attack against the Athenians but the outnumbered Athenians pressed them and won | 6 | |
| 7687306911 | Cambyses | was Cyrus' son who conquered Egypt in 525 BCE | 7 | |
| 7687330563 | Croesus | ruler of the powerful and wealthy kingdom of Lydia in southwestern Anatolia | 8 | |
| 7687353243 | Ctesiphon | was an Achaemenid capitol city on the Euphrates River near modern Baghdad | 9 | |
| 7687375691 | Cyrus | Cyrus the Achaemenid reigned from 558-530 BCE he was the one who launched the Persian's imperial venture | 10 | |
| 7687397730 | Darius | was the greatest of the empire Achaemenid empires reigned from 530-520 BCE and extended the empire both east and west | 11 | |
| 7687416986 | Eyes and the Ears of the Kings | imperial spies, who listened and watched around town. They reported everything to the kings/ rulers of the empire. | 12 | |
| 7687439777 | Gathas | Zarathustra's works of hymns that he composed in honor of the various deities | 13 | |
| 7687464008 | Magi | the priest orally taught and preached the teachings of the Zoroastrian religion | 14 | |
| 7687484534 | Manichaeism | between the Mediterranean and India was one of the popular faiths in spite the intermission persecution organized by the Sasanids | 15 | |
| 7687545125 | Medes | were close migrators to the Persians that came from Asia to Persia | 16 | |
| 7687576368 | Mithradates I | the Parthian's greatest conqueror came to power in 151 BCE and transformed his state into a mighty empire | 17 | |
| 7695362333 | Parsis | Zoroastrians fled their homeland under persecution and found refuge in India where their descendants known as "Parsis" continued to observe Zoroastrian traditions. | 18 | |
| 7695443938 | Parthians | soon took over India after migrating and they established themselves as powerful rulers in an empire based in Iran | 19 | |
| 7695495256 | Pasargadae | one of the fortresses that Cyrus conquered and was buried at | 20 | |
| 7695522609 | Persepolis | Darius built a new capitol here and it was the administrative center but also the monument of the Achaemenid empire | 21 | |
| 7695576945 | Persian Royal Road | linked lands from India to Egypt helped facilitate long distance trade between countries and sea ports | 22 | |
| 7736965948 | Persian Wars | a series of wars that aroused between the Achaemenids and the Greek migrators due to the fat that they stayed in touch with the people back in Greece; all the different ethnic groups | 23 | |
| 7737006750 | Qanat | underground canals which led to the enhanced agricultural production and population growth | 24 | |
| 7737029979 | Sasanids | later powerful Persian dynasty | 25 | |
| 7737034349 | Satrapies | system of provincial government in the Persian empire in which the administration is divided into provinces, each of which is called a satrapy | 26 | |
| 7737058024 | Seleucids | Persian empire founded by Seleucus after the death of Alexander the Great | 27 | |
| 7737071436 | Xerxes | Darius' succesor who reigned from 486- 465 BCE | 28 | |
| 7737090914 | Zarathustra | founded the religion Zoroastrianism as the prophet | 29 | |
| 7737103509 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion based of the teaching of the prophet Zarathustra taught the good and evil | 30 |
