Persia, A Little Bit of China, and Greece Intro
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| Cyrus the Great | Persian king who created a huge empire
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| Darius | Persian king who built the royal road unifying the empire
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| Royal Road | Road that helped to unify the Persian empire
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| Zoroaster | Persian prophet & religious reformer
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| Confucius | China’s most influential scholar
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| Filial Piety | Children’s respect for their parents & elders
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| Bureaucracy | Organization of government into agencies and departments
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| Daoism | Philosophy of Laozi (Lao Tsu) that puts people in touch with the forces of nature
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| Qin Dynasty | Dynasty that unified China
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| Qin Shi Huangdi | First emperor or China, leader of the Qin Dynasty
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| Homer | Greek poet who composed the Iliad and the Odyssey
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| Epic | Heroic story told in the form of a long poem
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| Polis | City-state of ancient Greece
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| Oligarchy | Government ruled by a few powerful people
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| Tyrant | Powerful ruler who gained control of a city-state’s government by asking the common people for support
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| Democracy | Rule by the people
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| Persian Wars | Conflict between Greece and the Persian Empire
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| Peloponnesian Wars | Conflict in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies
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| Philosopher | Thinker who uses logic and reason to explore life’s important questions
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| Socrates | Greek thinker who explored truth & justice, and developed a method of questioning and answering
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| Plato | Socrates’ student who wrote The Republic, a view of the ideal society
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| Aristotle | Plato’s student who developed a method for testing and organizing ideas
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| Tragedy | Serious drama dealing with such themes as love, hate, war or betrayal
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| Comedy | Light and amusing play that may poke fun at serious subjects
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| Direct Democracy | Form of government in which citizens rule directly
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