Bold Words Flashcards
Founder of Achaemenid Persian Empire. He conquered Media Babylon and Lydia. He employed both Persians and Medes in his administration and respected the institution and beliefs of subject people’s
Cyrus
Third ruler of Persian empire. He crushed all wide spread resistance to his rule and gave all major goverment post to Persians rather than Medes. He established a system of provinces and tribute and began the construction of Persepolis and extended Persian control into east Pakistan and west into northern Greece.
Darius 1
The governor of a province in the Achaemeind Persian empire often the relative of a king. He was responsible for the protection of the province and for forward tribute to the central adminerstration.
Satrap
A complex of palaces reception halls and tresurary buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius 1 and Xerxes in the Persian homeland. Celebrations took place here and Persian kings were buried in cliff tombs nearby.
Persepolis.
A religion originating in acient Iran that became the official religion of the Achaemenids.
Zoroastrianism
The Greek word for city state.
Polis.
A heavily armored Greek infantry of middle class and upper class citizens supplying thier own equipment. We’re for centuries superior to all other military forces.
Hoplite.
The term for Greeks who used to describe someone who seized and held power in violation of the normal procedures and traditions of the community.
Tyrant.
System of goverment in which all citizens have equal political and legal rights privileges and protections as in the city states of Athens.
Democracy.
A gift given to a deity.
Sacrifice.
Heir to the French technique of historia devolved by the Greeks. He traveled extensively collecting information in Western Asia and Mediterranean lands. He traced the antecedents and chronicled the wars between the Greek city states and the Persian empire this originating historical writing.
Herodotus.
Aristocratic leader who guided the Athenian state through the transformation to full participatory democracy for all male citizens supervised construction of Acropolis and preyed the policy of imperial expansion that led to the peloponnesusn war.
Pericles.
Conflicts between Greek city states and the Persian empire ranging from the linion revolt through Darius punitive exposition that failed at marathon and the defeat of Xerxes’ massive invasion of the Greece by the Spartan led Hellenic league. This setback launched Greeks into period of greatest cultural history.
Persian wars.
Greek and phonecian warship. It was sleek and light powered by 170 oars arranged in three vertical tiers.
Trireme
Athenian philosopher who shifted the emphasis of philosophical investigation from questions of natural science to ethics and human behavior. He attracted young disciples from elites but made enemies by revealing the ignorance and pretensions of others.
Socrates.
