AP World History Ch.7 test (big ticket words) Flashcards

mrs. hall ch.7 vocab quiz

82338698	achaemenid dynasty	ruled in Persia from Cyrus I to Darius III from 553 BCE-330 BCE	0
82338699	ahura mazda	main god of zoroastrianism who represented truth and goodness and was percieved to be in an eternal struggle with the malign spirit Angra Mainyu	1
82338700	parthians	persian dynasty that reached its peak under Mithradates 1	2
82338701	sasanids	Later powerful Persian dynasty (224-651) that would reach its peak under Shapur I and later fall to Arabic expansion.	3
82338702	satraps	persain administraters, usually members of the royal family,who governed a satrapy	4
82338703	zarathustra	Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism (circa 628-551 BC)	5
82338704	zoroastrianism	dual gods of equal power to form early monotheism; Persian; cosmic struggle over good and bad; those that do good go to heaven and bad go to hell; influenced Judaism and Christianity	6
82338705	darius	The great king of Persia. He was able to become a king after a year of a civil war following the death of someone. He is responsible for the expansion of Persia. He made a province in western India and expanded Persia as far north as Macedonia	7
82338706	free and unfree labor	free classes which contained bulk of persian society received income that temples made from agriculture processes; slaves worked as domestic servants or skilled laborers in households of wealthy and on constrution projects	8