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Chapter 7
The Empires of Persia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The major early turning point in the rise of the Persian empire was the | Victory of Cyrus over Lydia |
| The leader of the Lydians who fell to Cyrus was | Croesus |
| In organizing their empire, Persian rulers relied heavily on techniques of administration from the | Mesopotamians |
| Which of the following lists of Persian empires is correct, chronologically? | Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanids |
| The Medes and Persians were originally | Indo-European tribes |
| The founder of the Achaemenid empire was | Cyrus |
| In 525 B.C.E. the Persian emperor Cambyses captured | Egypt |
| The greatest of the Achaemenid emperors was | Darius |
| Pasargadae was | The capital of the Persian Empire before Persepolis |
| The population of the Achaemenid empire under Darius was | 35 million |
| The magnificent capital of the Persian Empire constructed by Darius was | Persepolis |
| Satarpies were | Persian administrative units |
| The Persian eyes and ears of the King | Were spies conduct a surprise audit and collected intelligence of the Satarps |
| Darius picked up the idea of standardize government issued coinage from the | Lydians |
| Which of the following empires normally display the greatest degree of toleration toward its subject peoples | Achaemenid |
| The Persian king who regularized tax levies and standardize laws was | Darius |
| The Persian legal code was designed to | Codified the laws of the subject peoples |
| The center of the Persian communications network was the | Persian Royal Road |
| Who used the words, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," to describe the Persian courier service? | Herodotus on Persian courier service |
| The qanat were | Persian underground canals |
| For his decision to allow them to return to their capital city rebuild temple, Darius received high praise for these people who were they? | Jews |
| The king who failed to follow the normal Persian governing policy of toleration was | Xerexes |
| The battle of Marathon in 490 BC E proved to be | A Persian loss |
| The decisive victory of Alexander of Macedon over the Persians was called the battle of | Guagamela |
| The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanid empires | Employed a form of imperial administration copied from the Achemenids |
| The Empire comprising most of the old Achaemenid state that was taken by a general of | Seleucid empire |
| The Seleucids were finally defeated in 83 B.C.E. by the | Romans |
| Which Iranian state followed the Achaemenids and rivaled the Seleucids in greatness? | Parthians |
| The greatest Parthian ruler was | Mithradates 1 |
| Ctesiphon | A capital city of the Parthians on the Euphrates River near modern Baghdad |
| Shapur 1 was | The greatest Sassanid king |
| The Sasanids were defeated in 651 CE by | Arab warriors |
| The social structure of the Medes and the Persians was originally very similar to the | Aryans in India |
| Gimillu | A slave who serve the temple community in Uruk and his career reveals that slaves sometimes had administrative talents into going tasks involving considerable responsibility |
| Zoroastrianism was | A religion founded in Persia by Zarathustra, had a main deity named Ahura Mazda and 6 lesser deities |
| Zarathustra talked about the battle between the wise Lord Ahura Mazda and the evil spirit | Angra Mainyu |
| The Gathas were | The 6 lesser deities of Zoroastrianism |
| Which of the following basic tenets of Zoroastrianism did not influence later religions | The view of the material world as a place of temptation that had to be ignored |
| Zarathustra viewed the material world | As a blessing that reflected the benevolent of the nature of Ahura Mazda |
| The words "good words, good thoughts, good deeds" were used to some of the view of morality of the | Zoroastrian teachings |
| Persia | Is now what is known as Iran. |
| Cyrus | (Achaemenid) Reigned Persia from 558 BCE to 530 BCE; he came from the mountain regions of what is now Iran; he conquered most of what was the Achaemenid Empire. |
| Darius | A kinsman of Cyrus, he is said to have expanded Cyrus's empire East and West from Macedonia to the Indus river. |
| Xerxes | Reigned Persia from 486 BCE to 465 BCE; he failed to follow the policy of toleration and caused chaos. |
| Seleucus | He took over the Persian Empire after Alexander the Great died and reigned from 305 BCE to 281 BCE. |
| Persepolis | The capital of the Persian empire built by Darius; in 330 BCE it served as the nerve center of the Persian Empire. |
| Achaemenids | Dynasty ruling in Persia from Cyrus I to Darius III (558-330 BC). |
| Seleucids | They controlled Persia after the death of Alexander the Great. Their king, Seleucus, was one of Alexander's generals. |
| Parthians | Iranian ruling dynasty between 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E.; their empire was based in Iran and extend to Mesopotamia. |
| Satrap | a governor of a province in the Ancient Persian empire |
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