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Persia and Greece
World History Test
| Terms | Definition or Questions |
|---|---|
| Persia | Empire from the Mesopotamia( Modern day Iran region) |
| Darius and Cyrus | two kings, built the powerful Persian empire |
| Zoroastrianism Religion | struggle between to gods( good god and evil god) |
| Zoroastrianism Idea | Heaven and hell introduced |
| Zoroastrianism Influence | Judaism, Christianity and Islam |
| Persia Government | The Kings were tolerant of the culture that they conquered |
| Persia Allowed | to keep their language and religion |
| Persia Showed | respect to other culture |
| Satrapy | 20 provinces created by Darius |
| Satraps | The local governors were known as satraps |
| Satraps known as | The eyes and ears of the kings |
| Persian Trade | Build an extensive network of roads to allow for better trade, communication, and tax collection |
| River Valley | After what era, a number of classical civilizations developed in the Mediterranean and in Asia |
| Classical | Why type of civilization developed in the Mediterranean and in Asia |
| Art, Science and Technology | Classic culture created high levels of achievement in what areas? |
| Future ages | Classic cultures created high levels of achievement and impacted who? |
| Greece | The first major classical civilization was ancient |
| their culture by fishing, trading, water transportation, strong navy have a reason to move around the water. | What is the impact of being surrounded by water (geography) have to ancient Greece? |
| their culture natural barriers for Protections, Scattered cities (harder to rule) island make them sailors. | What is the impact of having a lot of mountains and Islands. |
| natural resources and Location | What does Greece lack on the Mediterranean Sea encouraged Greek to trade with Neighboring societies ? |
| Pottery, wine, Olive Oil | What type of things did Greek export to trade with Neighboring societies ? |
| grain, ,metal, stone | What type of things were imported by Greek with neighboring societies |
| Mountains | covered about 75% of Greece which divided the people and made it impossible to unify. |
| Mountains separate the cities | Why did the mountains make it impossible to unify Greece? |
| Polis | The Greek developed independent city - states |
| Language | Greek shared the same |
| Writing | Was influenced by the Phoenician alphabet and became the basis for Latin |
| Polytheistic | Greeks religion is called |
| The Gods were immortal but had human qualities | Greek religion beliefs were? |
| Mythology | Religion became the basis for Greek? |
| Agora (downtown) | Most Greek city- states has an area that was the center for trade and government. |
| Acropolis (uptown) | City-States had an a temple on a hill dedicated to a sacred God. |
| Governed | The Greek Polis were different in how they were ____________ despite having similar language and religion |
| Monochary | Some Polis had a 1 person government ruled by a King |
| Aristocracy | Some Polis had a small group a government ruled by a elite nobles? |
| Nobles | Wealthy, Powerful |
| Democracy | Some Polis like Athens had a direct; a government ruled by citizens who vote on decision. |
| Aligarchy | Some Polish like Sparta had an government ruled by small group of citizens |
| Athens and Sparta | What two city- states represent the differences among the polls. |
| Wealth and Culture | What two areas does the Athenian society are focused on |
| Vote | Athens had a direct democracy in which both rich and poor citizens could exercise democracy and hold public office by doing what? |
| Parthenon | Architects build this to honor the goddess Athena |
| Realistic | What type of sculptures did the Athens artist create? |
| Theater | Athens expressed both comedies and tragedies through |
| Socrates | Philosopher such as Plato, Aristotle, ___________ questioned assumptions and the user of logic to find answers to questions |
| Military strength | What did the Spartan society focus on instead of freedom and learning? |
| 60 years old | How old could the Spartan men serve in the military? |
| 7 years old | How old di the Spartan Man start serving in the military? |
| Persian Wars | When did Spartan show their strength? |
| Sparta and Athens | What two city-states completed for influence in Greece and developed a strong rivalry? |
| Sparta | Who won the war between that weakens the Greeks, so they could easily be taken over eventually |
| Peloponnesian | The competition between Sparta and Athens eventually lead to what War? |
| 10,000 Immortals | Their Persia Empire elite military unit was known as the |
| Mesopotamia, Egypt and parts of India | The Persian Empire conquered |
| Persia Currency | Used coins with standardized values to promote trade. |
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