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TeamSpence:Mackenzie
Team Spence: Persian and Hellenistic Empires
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What Persian empire lasted from 558 to 330 B.C.E? | The Achaemenid Empire |
| What Persian empire lasted from 323 to 83 B.C.E? | The Seleucid Empire |
| What Persian empire lasted from 247 B.C.E to 224 C.E? | The Parthian Empire |
| What Persian empire lasted from 224 to 651 C.E? | The Sasanid Empire |
| The Medes and Persians spoke what languages? | Indo-European |
| Who were expert archers even when they were mounted on horses? | The Medes and Persians |
| Cyrus the Achaemenid was also called | Cyrus the Shepherd |
| Cyrus's son who conquered Egypt in 525 B.C.E and brought wealth to Persian lands | Cambyses |
| The greatest of the Achaemenid emperors | Darius |
| The capital for the Achaemenid empire that was built by Darius was called | Persepolis |
| The governmental realm for Darius's empire was divided into | Twenty-three-satrapies |
| The road that was 2,575 kilometers long,with some areas paved with stone | The Persian Royal Road |
| Underground Canals | Qanat |
| What the Greeks called the Persian governors | "Tyrants" |
| Alexander of Macedon was often called | Alexander the Great |
| The Parthians discovered that if they fed their horses this type of food ,that their horses would grow larger and stronger than the small horses and ponies of the steppes | Alfalfa |
| The Capital city at Ctesiphon was located on what river | The Euphrates River near modern Baghdad |
| What was extremely important in the Persian political and social affairs? | Family and clan relationship |
| The Achaemenid Empire developed into a | Cosmopolitan Empire |
| Artisans,Craftsmen, Merchants, and low-ranking civil servants were known as | Free Classes |
| A large class of who who worked in both the cities and the couontryside | Slaves |
| What graiins were cultivated most commonly in the Persian empires | Barley and Wheat |
| Who ruled the Achaemenid empire until 83 B.C.E when Roman conquerors put an end to it? | The Seleucids |
| What religion emerged from the teachings of Zarathustra? | Zoroastrianism |
| Priests were known as | Magi |
| Zarathustra's works of hymns that he composed in honor of the various deities that he recognized | The Gathas |
| The evil and malign spirit known as Angra Mainyu was aso known as | "The Destructuve Spirit" or "The Hostile Spirit" |
| Who was recognized as a supreme deity, an eternal and beneficent spirit, and the creator of all good things? | Ahura Mazda |
| Zoroastrians moral teachings summarized into the formula | "Good words, good thoughts, good deeds" |
| Whos forces burned many temples and killed numerous magi? | Alexander of Macedon |
| During what realm did Greek influence reach its greatest extent | The Seleucid realm |
| What style of a society was the Seleucid empire | Mediterranean-style urban society |
| What two languages were most commonlyy used in the Hellenistic empires? | Greek & Aramaic |
| What Hellenistic colonly was on the Oxus river? | Ai Khanum |
| King Menander changed his religious view to | Buddhism |
| The Greek society in terms of trade relied heavily on | Maritime trade |
| Greece is ideally suited to the cultivation of | Olives and Grapes |
| Athens and Corinth relied on______ rather than agriculture fo their livelihood and prosperity | Commerce |
| The best known festival of the Panhellenic festivals were | The Olympic Games |
| What linked Persia and Bactria to the western regions of the Hellenistic world | Caravan trade |
| Persians recognized many of the same Gods as the.... | Aryans |
| Priests preformed sacrifices similar to who in India | Brahmins |
| A Hallucinogenic agent was called | Haoma |
| True or False: Zarathustras teachings allowed humans to enjoy wealth, sexual pleasure, and social prestige | True |
| The Avesta was composed of | Written versions of the Holy texts |
| Zorastrians descendants known as Parsis, stood for | "Persians" |
| What empie governed cosmopolitan societies and sponsored interactions between people from Greece to India | Hellenistic |
| The smallest realm of the Hellenistic empires | The Antigonid realm |
| The wealthiest of the Hellenistic empires | The Ptolemaic Egypt |
| The capital of the Ptolemaic empire | Alexandria |
| Alexandria was at the mouth of what river | The Nile |
| Greeks concentrated on the production of | Olive oil and Wine |
| What festivals gathered people together to reinforce their common bonds | Panhellenic Festivals |
| What sociey served as a commercial and Cultural bridge between Indian and Mediterranean societies | The Persian |
| Who was a tough, wily leader ,and an outstanding military strategist | Cyrus |
| Cyrus brought all of which country under his control | Iran |
| What powerful kingdom in Anatolia did Cyrus conquer? | Lydia |
| Imperial spies for the king were also known as | "the eyes and ears of the king" |
| How was Zorastrianism preserved | Through oral transmission |
| Who weaved textiles and recieved rations of grain, wine, beer, and sometimes meat from the imperial and temple workshops that employed them | Women in the Persian society |
| What allowed cultivators to distribute water to fields | Quanats |
| Who provided much of the manual labor for large-scale construstion projects such as roads, irrigation systems, city walls, and palaces? | State-Owned slaves |
| Debts that wernt repaid caused borrowers to | forfeit their property, sell their children, spouses, or themselves into slavery |
| Who facilitated cultural and commercial exchanges by encouraging the mixing and mingling of religious faiths, art styles, and philosophical speculation throughout the Persian realm | Greek migrants |
| Ahura Mazda was known as | "The wise lord" |
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