A unequal struggle

Question 1

Who sent his son-in-law, with a new and mighty fleet, to sail against Athens

Answer 1

Cyrus

Question 2

Who were the Persians dominated by.

Answer 2

They were dominated for hundreds of years from the Assyrians and the Babylons.

Question 3

Who made the Egyptian empire fall after 3000 years

Answer 3

Cambyses

Question 4

Where did Darius extend his empire

Answer 4

He extended his empire out into Asia Minor, along whose coasts play the cities of Ionian Greek.

Question 5

What were the rich people in Greek doing for work.

Answer 5

Rich merchants

Question 6

How did Cambyses ships sink going to destroy Athens and conquer Greece.

Answer 6

In a violent storm that were being pushed against the cliffs.

Question 7

What place did Cambyses conquer next to Athens.

Answer 7

He conquered many islands including an island called a marathon.

Question 8

What did a small army of Spartans who had allied with the Athenians do.

Answer 8

They tried to block the Persian advance in a narrow pass called Thermopylae.

Question 9

How many Spartans were killed in the same battle when they were trying to block the Persian advance in a narrow pass called Thermopylae.

Answer 9

Three hundred Spartans and seven hundred of their allies were killed in the battle.

Question 10

What year was the persian land was also defeated by the combined forces of the Greeks and their allies, near Plataea.

Answer 10

479 BC

Question 11

This was not the best feature of the Athenians, yet it was part of their nature.

Answer 11

Always Trying out new ideas, never satisfied, never at rest.

Question 12

This explains why, during the hundred years that followed the Persian wars, more went on in the minds of the people of the little city of Athens than in a thousand years in all the great empires of the East.

Answer 12

The ideas, the painting, the sculpture, architecture, plays and poetry, inventions, and experiments,

Question 13

the discussions and arguments that the young brought to the marketplaces and the old to their council chambers continue to concern us today.

Answer 13

Strangely,t it should be so, and yet it’s true. And what would it have been like if the Persians had won at Marathon?

Question 14

hip sunk by the Greeks’ heavy ships. Aghast, he ordered the retreat.

Answer 14

the Athenians were victorious, and against an even greater army than before. This was in 480 BC.

Question 15

Xerxes, a hard, ambitious man, needed no urging. He assembled an army from among all the subjects of the peoples of his empire.

Answer 15

Dressed in their traditional costumes, with their weapons, their bows and arrows, shields and swords, lances, war chariots, and slings, they were a vast, swirling multitude,

Question 16

What hope had the Greeks in the face of such a host?

Answer 16

What hope had the Greeks in the face of such a host?

Question 17

In this, supported by the Greeks in the motherland, the founders of the colony were checked, and cleared by Athens, who sent them and ships.

Answer 17

Never before had the king of Persia, the king of kings, for that was his title being so insulted.

Question 18

such a way that nothing happened anywhere that he did not decree.

Answer 18

He built roads so that his orders might be carried without delay to the furthest parts of his kingdom

Question 19

Something very strange happened between 550 and 500 BC.

Answer 19

I don’t understand it myself, but perhaps that’s what makes it so interesting.

Question 20

In the high mountain chain that runs north of Mesopotamia a wild mountain tribe had long been living

Answer 20

They had a beautiful religion: the light and the sun and believed it to be in a state of constant warfare with the dark-that is, with the dark powers of evil.

Question 21

prepared to put up with the oppression of his people. He led his band of horsemen down from there onto the little band of warriors that dared attack their city.

Answer 21

Yet, under Cyrus’s leadership, they succeeded, through courage and guile. And so Cyrus became lord of that great realm.

Question 22

Not content with his great kingdom, however, Cyrus marched on to conquer Egypt, only to die on the way

Answer 22

But his son, Cambyses, succeeded. Egypt fell and the pharaoh was deposed.

Question 23

dominated, first by the Assyrians, and then by the Babylonians

Answer 23

One day they had enough. Their ruler was a man of exceptional courage and intelligence called Cyrus, who was no longer prepared to put up with the oppression of his people.

Question 24

And with its end, this little Persian tribe became master of nearly all the known world.

Answer 24

But only nearly they hadn’t yet swallowed up the grease that was still to come.

Question 25

who was no longer prepared to put up with the oppression of his people.

Answer 25

He led his band of horsemen down from there onto the little band of warriors that dared attack their city. Yet, under Cyrus’s leadership, they succeeded, through courage and guile. And so Cyrus became lord of that great realm.

Question 26

what ruler sent people in the heart of Asia expecting obedience.

Answer 26

Cambyses

Question 27

what was the army called that had ten thousand soldiers.

Answer 27

Miltiadeds