Vocab chapter 5 Flashcards

Greece and Iran, 1000-30 B.C.E.

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