AP World History Chapter 7 Flashcards

7649477261	Achaemenids	relating to the dynasty ruling in Persia from Cyrus I to Darius III (553-330 bc)	0
7649500620	Aegean	it is a sea where ports and trade frequented and Darius in 525 BCE spread his empire all the way in the west	1
7649540504	Ahura Mazda	he was the supreme god of the Zoroastrianism religion and the creator of all/ "the wise lord"	2
7649616753	Alexander of Macedon	also known as "Alexander the Great" was a king of Persia in 334 BCE who helped expand the empire	3
7649683995	Avesta	they started to preserve religious writings and the Sasanids started to compile holy scriptures in a holy book (Avesta)	4
7649729671	Battle of Gaugamela	October 1, 331 BCE. The final meeting of Alexander the Great and King Darius III of Persia, in which Alexander was victorious	5
7673939989	Battle of Marathon	Darius with the Persians mounted an attack against the Athenians but the outnumbered Athenians pressed them and won	6
7687306911	Cambyses	was Cyrus' son who conquered Egypt in 525 BCE	7
7687330563	Croesus	ruler of the powerful and wealthy kingdom of Lydia in southwestern Anatolia	8
7687353243	Ctesiphon	was an Achaemenid capitol city on the Euphrates River near modern Baghdad	9
7687375691	Cyrus	Cyrus the Achaemenid reigned from 558-530 BCE he was the one who launched the Persian's imperial venture	10
7687397730	Darius	was the greatest of the empire Achaemenid empires reigned from 530-520 BCE and extended the empire both east and west	11
7687416986	Eyes and the Ears of the Kings	imperial spies, who listened and watched around town. They reported everything to the kings/ rulers of the empire.	12
7687439777	Gathas	Zarathustra's works of hymns that he composed in honor of the various deities	13
7687464008	Magi	the priest orally taught and preached the teachings of the Zoroastrian religion	14
7687484534	Manichaeism	between the Mediterranean and India was one of the popular faiths in spite the intermission persecution organized by the Sasanids	15
7687545125	Medes	were close migrators to the Persians that came from Asia to Persia	16
7687576368	Mithradates I	the Parthian's greatest conqueror came to power in 151 BCE and transformed his state into a mighty empire	17
7695362333	Parsis	Zoroastrians fled their homeland under persecution and found refuge in India where their descendants known as "Parsis" continued to observe Zoroastrian traditions.	18
7695443938	Parthians	soon took over India after migrating and they established themselves as powerful rulers in an empire based in Iran	19
7695495256	Pasargadae	one of the fortresses that Cyrus conquered and was buried at	20
7695522609	Persepolis	Darius built a new capitol here and it was the administrative center but also the monument of the Achaemenid empire	21
7695576945	Persian Royal Road	linked lands from India to Egypt helped facilitate long distance trade between countries and sea ports	22
7736965948	Persian Wars	a series of wars that aroused between the Achaemenids and the Greek migrators due to the fat that they stayed in touch with the people back in Greece; all the different ethnic groups	23
7737006750	Qanat	underground canals which led to the enhanced agricultural production and population growth	24
7737029979	Sasanids	later powerful Persian dynasty	25
7737034349	Satrapies	system of provincial government in the Persian empire in which the administration is divided into provinces, each of which is called a satrapy	26
7737058024	Seleucids	Persian empire founded by Seleucus after the death of Alexander the Great	27
7737071436	Xerxes	Darius' succesor who reigned from 486- 465 BCE	28
7737090914	Zarathustra	founded the religion Zoroastrianism as the prophet	29
7737103509	Zoroastrianism	Persian religion based of the teaching of the prophet Zarathustra taught the good and evil	30