Ap World History Chapter 4 Vocabulary Flashcards

4844380210	Cyrus	Founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire between 550 and 530 BCE he conquered Media, Lydia, and babylon	0
4844452928	Darius I	Third ruler of the Persian Empire. He crushed the widespread initial resistance to his rule and gave all major government posts to Persians rather than to Medes.	1
4844468906	Satrap	the governor of a province in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, often relative of the king.	2
4844483398	Persepolis	A complex of palaces, reception halls, and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings.	3
4844495845	Zoroastrianism	A religion originating in ancient Iran that became the official religion of Achaemendis.	4
4844585285	Polis	The Greek term for a city-state.	5
4844594321	Hoptile	A heavily armored Greek infantryman of the Archaic and Classical periods who fought in the closepacked phalanx formation.	6
4844606000	Tyrant	The term the Greeks used to describe someone who seized and held power in violation of the normal procedures and traditions of the community.	7
4844613509	Democracy	system of government in which all "citizens" (however defined) have equal political and legal rights.	8
4844709582	Sacrifice	A gift given to a deity	9
4844718230	Herodotus	Heir to the technique of historia developed by Greeks in the late Archaic period.	10
4844723856	Pericles	Aristocratic leader who guided by Greeks in the late Archaic period.	11
4844739260	Persians Wars	Conflicts between the Greek city-states and the Persian empire.	12
4844745173	Tireme	Greek and Phoenician warships of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE	13
4844753506	Socrates	Athenian philosopher who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions.	14
4844783235	Peloponnese War	A protracted and costly conflict between the Athenian and Spartan alliance systems that convulsed most of the Greek world.	15
4844810007	Alexander	King of Macedonia in northern Greece.	16
4844814246	Hellenistic Age	Historians' term of the era in which Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the great	17
4844822701	Ptolemies	The Macedonian dynasty ,descended from one of Alexander the greats officers.	18
4844831781	Alexandria	City on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt founded by Alexander.	19