AP World History: Chapter 4 Vocab Flashcards
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| 60503433 | Cyrus (Kurush) | The son of a Persian chieftan and a Median princess, united the various Persian tribes and overthrow the Median monarch sometime around 550 B.C.E. | 0 | |
| 60503434 | Darius I (Darayavaush) | Seized the throne from Cambyses in 522 B.C.E. | 1 | |
| 60503435 | Satrap | Governor | 2 | |
| 60503436 | Persepolis (Parsa) | Show that government officials distributed food and other essential commodities to large numbers of workers of many different nationalities. | 3 | |
| 60503437 | Zoroastrianism | Religion, the god of the religion is Ahuramazda | 4 | |
| 60503438 | Polis | City-state | 5 | |
| 60503439 | Hoplites | Heavily armored infantrymen who fought in close formation. | 6 | |
| 60503440 | Tyrant | A person who seized and held power in violatioin of the normal political institutions and traditions of the community. | 7 | |
| 60503441 | Democracy | The excercise of political power by all free adult males. | 8 | |
| 60503442 | Sacrifice | The central ritual of Greek religion, was performed at altars in front of the temples that the Greeks built to be the gods' places of residence. | 9 | |
| 60503443 | Herodotus | from Halicarnassus in southwest Anatolia. | 10 | |
| 60503444 | Athens | preeminent Greek city-states of the late Archaic and Classical periods. | 11 | |
| 60503445 | Sparta | preeminent Greek city-states of the late Archaic and Classical periods. | 12 | |
| 60503446 | Pericles | took last steps in the evolution of Athenian democracy. | 13 | |
| 60503447 | Persian Wars | two Persian attacks on Greece in the early fifth century B.C.E. | 14 | |
| 60503448 | Trireme | a sleek, fast vessel powered by 170 rowers | 15 | |
| 60503449 | Socrates | philosopher, brought to trial and started new intellectual currents in 399 B.C.E. | 16 | |
| 60503450 | Plato | Socrates disciple, may represent the first generation to be truly literate. | 17 | |
| 60503451 | Aristotle | Student of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great | 18 | |
| 60503452 | Peloponnesian War | a war in which Athens and its allies were defeated by the league centered on Sparta | 19 | |
| 60503453 | Alexander | Philip's son and heir. | 20 | |
| 60503454 | Hellenistic Age | the lands in northeastern Africa and western Asia that came under Greek rule tended to be "Hellenized" or powerfully influenced by Greek culture. | 21 | |
| 60503455 | Ptolomies | ruled Egypt and sometimes laid claim to adjacent Syria-Palestine. | 22 | |
| 60503456 | Alexandria | the first of the new cities laid out by Alexander himself. | 23 |