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History homework
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is achaemendids? | The first Persian empire. |
| Who were the Medes? | An ancient Iranian people |
| What was the pasargadae? | The second capital of the Achaeminid empire |
| Who was Cambyses? | The king of Anshan |
| Who was Darius? | The third king of the Achaemenid empire |
| What was Persepolis? | The capital of the Achaeminid empire |
| Who were the satrapies? | The governers of the Persian province |
| Why was the royal road built? | To facilitate rapid communication throughout the king's land |
| What is commonwealth? | The nation's private trade network |
| Why was the battle of marathon fought? | King Darius wanted to subjugate Greece |
| Who was Alexander of Marcedon? | The king of ancient greece |
| What was the Seleucid? | The empire that ruled after the reign of Alexander the great |
| What was the Parthian empire? | A major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran |
| Who were the mithradates? | King of the Persian empire between 165 bc to 132 bc |
| What was ctesiphon? | Capital of the Parthian and sasanian empires |
| What was the Sassanid empire | The last Iranian empire before the rise of Islam |
| What was Zoroastrianism? | The religious teachings of Zoroaster |
| What was ahura Mazda? | The God of zoroiastrianism |
| Who are magi? | Followers of Zoroastrianism and zoroaster |
| What is Avesta? | Primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism |
| What are Gathas? | 17 Hymes that Zoroaster wrote himself |
| What is Manichaeism? | A religion that described the struggle between good sports and bad ones |