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Ancient greece sec 3
Percia attacks the greeks vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Persia | The persians were originally a medic tribe which settled in persia on the eastern side of the persian gulf |
| Cyrus the great | Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Persian empire. When he became king, Persia was a client state of the empire of the Medes. |
| Darius | king of Persia 521–486 known as Darius the Great. |
| Satrapies | The 20 states into which darius divided the persian empire |
| Satrap | Official who ruled a state in the persian empire under darius |
| Zoroastrianism | Persian religion founded by zoroaster,taught that humans had the freedom to choose between right and wrong and that goodness would triumph in he end |
| Marathon | Marathon is a town in greece in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians. |
| Xerxes | the Great, was the fourth of the king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire. |
| Themistocles | was an Athenian politician and general. |
| Thermopylae | is a place in Greece where a narrow coastal passage existed in antiquity. It derives its name from its hot sulphur springs. |
| Salamis | The Battle of Salamis was a naval battle between the Greek city-states and Persia, fought in September, 480 BC in the straits between Piraeus and Salamis, a small island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens, Greece. |
| Plataea | an ancient city in greece in boeotia greeks defeated persians here |