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| 4794645883 | Cyrus | Cyrus II of Persia, commonly known as Cyrus the Great and also called Cyrus the Elder by the Greeks, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire |  | 0 |
| 4794649214 | Darius 1 | Darius I was the third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Also called Darius the Great, he ruled the empire at its peak | 1 | |
| 4794654985 | satrap | a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire. | 2 | |
| 4794661272 | Persepolis | Persepolis is the Greek name (from perses polis for 'Persian City') for the ancient city of Parsa, located seventy miles northeast of Shiraz in present-day Iran | 3 | |
| 4794662775 | Zoroastrianism | the ancient pre-Islamic religion of Iran that survives there in isolated areas and, more prosperously, in India, where the descendants of Zoroastrian Iranian (Persian) immigrants are known as Parsis, or Parsees. | 4 | |
| 4794665729 | polis | a city state in ancient Greece, especially as considered in its ideal form for philosophical purposes. | 5 | |
| 4794670596 | Hoplite | citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields. | 6 | |
| 4794673750 | tyrant | a cruel and oppressive ruler | 7 | |
| 4794674886 | democracy | a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. | 8 | |
| 4794677460 | Herodotus | Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC ( c. 484-c. 425 BC), a contemporary of Socrates. | 9 | |
| 4794681113 | Pericles | as a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age—specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. | 10 | |
| 4794682335 | Persia Wars | wars fought between Greece and Persia in the 5th century bc, in which the Persians sought to extend their territory over the Greek world. | 11 | |
| 4794685770 | trireme | an ancient Greek or Roman war galley with three banks of oars. | 12 | |
| 4794688381 | Socrates | Greek philosopher. As represented in the writings of his disciple Plato, he engaged in dialogue with others in an attempt to define ethical concepts by exposing and dispelling error (the Socratic method) | 13 | |
| 4794695054 | Peloponnesian War | an ancient Greek war fought by Athens and its empire against the Peloponnesian League led by Sparta. Historians have traditionally divided the war into three phases | 14 | |
| 4794699116 | Alexander the Great | was a King of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty | 15 | |
| 4794705112 | Hellenistic Age | period of ancient Greek (Hellenic) history and Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the subsequent conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year. | 16 | |
| 4795927010 | ptolemies | Macedonian Greek royal family which ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt during the Hellenistic period. | 17 | |
| 4795939711 | alexandria | Mediterranean port city in Egypt. During the Hellenistic period, it was home to a lighthouse ranking among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World as well as a storied library | 18 | |
| 4795951223 | 12 tables | legislation that stood at the foundation of Roman law. The Tables consolidated earlier traditions into an enduring set of laws. | 19 | |
| 4795953699 | Republic | a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. | 20 | |
| 4795960481 | senate | any of various legislative or governing bodies, in particula | 21 | |
| 4802435461 | principate | the rule of the early Roman emperors, during which some features of republican government were retained. | 22 | |
| 4802437332 | equites | a class of citizens who originally formed the cavalry of the Roman army and at a later period were a wealthy class of great political importance. | 23 | |
| 4802439314 | augustus | founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family. | 24 | |
| 4802449563 | aqueduct | artificial channel for conveying water, typically in the form of a bridge supported by tall columns across a valley. | 25 | |
| 4802453026 | pax romana | peace that existed between nationalities within the Roman Empire. | 26 | |
| 4802471225 | Jesus | A prophet of the first century of our era; to Christians, Jesus Christ, the son of God, a person who was both God and man, the Messiah sent by God to save the human race from the sin it inherited through the Fall of Man | 27 | |
| 4802484548 | Paul | originally called Saul, was at first an enemy and persecutor of the early Christians.Ancient Christian preacher and teacher; along with the Apostle Peter, one of the foremost leaders of the early Christian Church | 28 | |
| 4802490046 | constantine | Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire | 29 | |
| 4803079503 | third century crisis | also known as Military Anarchy or the Imperial Crisis, (AD 235-284) was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression. | 30 | |
| 4803087171 | qin | Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall | 31 | |
| 4803090934 | shi huangdi | First Chinese Emperor. A ruler from the western state of Qin united and subjugated the Warring States and formed China in 221 B.C. He declared himself the first emperor of China and named himself | 32 | |
| 4803092338 | Han | was the second imperial dynasty of China (206 BC-220 AD), preceded by the Qin dynasty (221-206 BC) and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms period (220-280 AD). | 33 | |
| 4805080740 | Xiongnu | known as the Asiatic Huns, were one of the nomadic peoples of Ancient Central Asia. | 34 | |
| 4805082988 | Gaozu | founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty. He ruled China from 202-195 BC. Gaozu was one of the few dynasty founders in Chinese history originating from the peasant class | 35 | |
| 4805090370 | Sima Qian | Chinese historian of the Han dynasty. He is considered the father of Chinese historiography for his Records of the Grand Historian | 36 | |
| 4805095971 | Chang'an | ancient capital of more than ten dynasties in Chinese history, today known as Xi'an."Perpetual Peace" in Classical Chinese | 37 | |
| 4805100769 | people of good social position, specifically (in the UK) the class of people next below the nobility in position and birth. | 38 |
