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Persian Facts
Question | Answer |
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gilt | covered thinly with gold paint |
exploit | a bold or daring feat |
inquiry | an act of asking for information |
smitten | struck with a firm blow |
enamel | glassy coat applied to metallic or hard surfaces |
quiver | an archers case for holding arrows |
subsist | to maintain something at a minimal level |
sagacity | the quality of having mental discernment and good judgment |
usurp | to take a position of power illegally or by force |
satrap | a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire |
tapestry | a thick piece of fabric with pictures as designs used as a wall hanging or furniture covering |
battlement | a parapet or wall built on top of another structure with openings to shoot through |
prostrate | lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downward |
satrapy | the territory under the rule of a satrap |
Light | chief spirit of Ahuramazda |
the royal road | road connecting Susa and Sardis |
Croesus | king of Lydia defeated by Cyrus |
Ahuramazda | Persian god who was good in the world |
the spirit of evil | the enemy of Ahuramazda |
Henry Rawlinson | scholar who copied and read the inscriptions on the Behistun Rock |
great king | title for each king of Persia |
Cyrus | king of Persia, made Persia into a world empire |
Sardis | capital city of Lydia |
Darius | king of Persia |
Abode of Falsehood | hell |
Zoroaster | famous teacher of Persian religion |
Cyrus | king of Medes and Persia |
Susa | capital of the Persian empire |
Lydia | chief state in Asia Minor during the reign of Cyrus |
Ecbatana | capital of Medes |
Medes | ancient empire conquered by Cyrus of Persia |
Xerxes | son of Darius, king of Persia |
Behistun Rock | rock consisting of Persian and Babylonian inscriptions |
Zend-Avesta | sacred book of Zoroastrianism |