AP World History Chapter 7 Key Terms Flashcards
traditions and encounters chapter 7
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| 7687034141 | Medes | closely related to persians with a strong military, pastoralists | 0 | |
| 7687034142 | Cyrus | launched persian imperial venture and rebeled against medians, ruled from pasagardae | 1 | |
| 7687034143 | Persepolis | new capital city, near pasagardae, nerve center, royal structures | 2 | |
| 7687034144 | Satraps | governed satrapies, mostly persian but held posts distant from capital city | 3 | |
| 7687034145 | Croesus | lydian king, created standardized coin, defeated by cyrus | 4 | |
| 7687034146 | Achaemenids | qanats promoted agriculture and population boost, different ethnic identities, tolerant as long as taxes are payed | 5 | |
| 7687034147 | Seleucids | seleucus won persia after battle between alexanders generals, retained achaemenid administration, taxation, roads, and poastal service | 6 | |
| 7687034148 | Sasanids | took down parthians, established ctesiphon, taken down by arabs | 7 | |
| 7687034149 | Zarathrusta | historical person from aristocratic family, left family in search and discovered "ahura mazda" | 8 | |
| 7687034150 | Gathas | zarathustras works were hymns honoring dieties, traditions only written down after seleucid dynasty | 9 | |
| 7687034151 | Zoroastrianism | believed ahura mazda was supreme diety, six lesser dieties, ahura mazda is in a constant struggle with evil spirit and once he wins, humans will be judged | 10 | |
| 7687034152 | Parsis | zoroastrian immigrants in india | 11 |