ch.4 ap world vocab Flashcards

32416759	Cyrus	the son of a Persian chieftain and a Median princess, united the various Persian tribes and overthrew the Median monarch. (550 BCE)
32416760	silphium	a plant valued for its medicinal properties
32416761	Iran	"land of the Aryans" links western Asia and southern and Central Asia.
32416762	Iran's mineral resources	copper, tin, iron, gold and silver.
32416763	Medes	first to achieve a complex level of political organization. played a major role in destruction of the Assyrian Empire.
32416764	Achaemenids	Persian rulers
32416765	Social class of Indo-European people	warriors, priests, and peasants
32416766	Cambyses	Cyrus' son who attacked Egypt. Had expeditions to Nubia and Libya.
32416767	Darius I	Successor to Cambyses. ruthlessness. Extended Persian control. Explored the waters from the Indus Delta to the Red Sea. completed a canal linking the Red Sea and the Nile.
32416768	Darius I Empire	encompassed a multitude of ethnic groups. many forms of social and political organization, from nomadic kinship to subordinate kingdom to city state.
32416769	Darius I Empire	20 provinces. was under the supervision of a Persian satrap. likely related or connected by marriage to the royal family
32416770	Satrap	governor of provinces. more autonomy if farther from the center of the empire.
32416771	Susa	administrative center of the empire.
32416772	Persepolis	records kept on baked clay tablets. cuneiform.
32718033	Persian Wars	two Persian attacks on Greece in the early fifth century.
32732264	Alexandria	the first of the new cities laid out by Alexander the Great.
32732265	Hellenistic Age	land was strongly influenced by Greek culture.