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Chapter 7
Persians
Question | Answer |
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Persians: They lived in.... | Present day Iran |
Persians: King _____added many new territories to the empire | Cyrus |
Persians: They ruled over... | 35 million people. |
Persians: Empire stretched more than 3000 miles which is from | The Nile to the Indus river. |
Persians: Best organizer among Persian Kings. | Darius |
Persians: Saptrap = | governor |
The Persians were very ______ rulers | tolerant |
Did not change languages, laws, or religions. | This shows how tolerant they were |
Persepolis | most magnificent city in the empire |
Big Network of roads... | Allowed easy movement of soldiers and trade between different peoples |
Royal Road.. | = longest road in the empire - had stations along it so travelers could get food, water, and fresh horses |
480 BCE | = Darius’s son Xerxes tried to conquer Greece to expand the empire Failed to defeat the Greeks |
7th–6th centuries B.C.E.(?) | Life of Zarathustra |
558–330 B.C.E. | Achaemenid dynasty |
558–530 B.C.E. | Reign of Cyrus the Achaemenid |
521–486 B.C.E. | Reign of Darius |
334–330 B.C.E. | Invasion and conquest of the Achaemenid empire by Alexander of Macedon |
323–83 B.C.E. | Seleucid dynasty |
247 B.C.E.–224 C.E. | Parthian dynasty |
224–651 C.E. | Sasanid dynasty |
The Minoans | BOTH men & women Curled their hair Wore gold jewelry Wore wide metal belts Liked dancing, sporting events, and boxing |
Empires of the Classical Era | Persia, Greece (under Alexander the Great), Rome, China (Qin and Han dynasties), India (Mauryan and Gupta dynasties) |
Who treated people very cruelly when they conquered? | Assyrians |