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Athens~Sparta~Persia
Why
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Zoraster | A .A religious leader B. preached a new monothestic religion C. taught that there was one supreme god named Ahura Mazda, force of good |
| Cyrus | A.a persian king of the persian empire B. built a strong army C. grew his empire together by treating conquered people fairly |
| Darius I | A reorganised the government to be more efficient B he believed a god chose him to be king C divided Greece into satrapies |
| Xerxes | Invaded Greece with 200,000 soldiers |
| Leonidas | When he fought against the persians with Athens he supplied the most soldiers and Led 7,000 soldiers into a war that lasted for three days |
| Who wrote History of the Persian Wars? | Herodotus |
| Aspasia | The first woman in the government |
| Pericles | Made Athens more democratic |
| Representative Democracy | In a representative democracy citizens elect a smaller group of people then those people make laws, represents them and governs |
| Direct Democracy | Every citizen gets to say something and vote in the government |
| Delian League | The combined army of some of the city-states in Greece to defend against Persians |
| Athenian Economy | Lots of people were trading with other city-states for food and other goods |
| Peloponnesian War | When the city-states were in the Delian League they were all equal but Athens wanted to rule so they went to war with Sparta |