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Chapter 3 Quiz Flashcards

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How long Did Cyrus the great rule Persia?

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Ruled 559- 529 B.C.E

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Who took over after Cyrus the great?

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His son Cambyses took over

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The empire ruled by Cambyses was known as?

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The Achaemenid empire(sometimes called the first Persian empire).

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What civilizations did the Achaemenid empire unite?

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Mesopotamia, Egypt, and India

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How many ethnic groups did the Achaemenid empire include?

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More than 70

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Why did Persia divide its self into provinces?

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So that the kings policies announced in the capital Persepolis, so it could be administered through outside the empire

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What is a Satrap

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A ruler of a province who was responsible to the emperor, not to local leader

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What are inspectors

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They would travel to each province and report to the king on the behavior of the satraps

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What did inspectors and satraps make

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It made a Administrative Bureaucracy

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What did Darius do to pay for the Bureaucracy

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He instituted regular tax payments

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Where was Persepolis located

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Iran

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12
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What was the royal road

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Was the most famous network of roads that encouraged trade

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What did Darius add to the Royal road

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He added an efficient courier service with postal stations along this road

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What was caravanserai

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Was a combination inns and markets for people traveling the royal road by camel caravan

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What did common currency do

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Made trade simpler and untied the empire and promoting prosperity

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What did Xerxes build

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He built a gate of all nations to show he was honoring all of his subjects

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What did Persia allow

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Persia allowed for cultural diversity and was unlike other empires during this time

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18
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What did Zarathustra teach

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There was one god and his name was Ahura Mazda, taught the concepts of heaven and hell

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What were priests called

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Magi’s( they passed Zarathustra’s teachings

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What was a qanat used for

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To reduce the evaporation of the water as it traveled to the fields

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Turkey exports

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Ivory and gold

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Exports from Phoenicia

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Cedar and woolen fabrics

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Exports from Phoenicia

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Cedar and woolen fabrics

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Greece exports

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Wine and oil

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Egypt exports

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Grain, textiles, and papyrus

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Where did conflict began Persia vs Greece

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Asia Minor

27
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What alliance did Athenians make

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The Delian league( Athens had strong naval power) they beat many empires on water

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What caused the decline of Persia

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Cost of battles, Xerxes began to take a less tolerant attitude toward non Persians in the empire

29
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What did Philip ll do

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He united the Greek city states and conquered Asia Minor except Sparta

30
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Why could Phillip not achieve his goal

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Because he was assassinated

31
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What did Alexander do

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He picked native residents to help him rule and control a specific part of the empire, founded the great city of Alexandria

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What was Alexandria

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A major city that was a major sea port and had the largest library of the ancient world in it

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Decline of Alexander’s rule

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When he died the central administration of the empire collapsed,

34
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What’s are Seleucids

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We’re rulers of Persia

35
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Who were the Parthian’s

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Ruled Iraq, Iran, and western India, they were originally a nomadic group

36
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Similarities of Greece and Persian empire

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They had wide cultural influence and covered a large territory, they allowed most women few rights,

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Differences of Greece and Persian empire

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Greeks had many god while Persians believed in one god, Greeks were more unified culturally while Persians had hight tolerance for diverse traditions

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What is syncretism

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The combination of different form of beliefs or practices

39
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What did majority people think of Alexander

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They thought he was a great emperor and had much evidence to prove so.

40
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Who was in of the first historians to write about Alexander

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Arrian Falvius

41
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Where did Minoans live

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On an island called Crete

42
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How did Minoan’s economically strive

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They were relied on trade, which made them rich

43
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What was the wealthiest city on the Aahan for a while?

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Knossos which was built by Minoans

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Who was the king of Knossos

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King Minos

45
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What was the decline of Minoan and Mycenaean called

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Dark age

46
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What was an example of continuity?

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Culture from Knossos Spread to the Mediterranean area and Southwest Asia

47
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What did the irregular coastline do

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Made seafaring and trade important

48
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What did the Greeks adopt from Phoenicians

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Adopted their alphabet and made communication more efficient

49
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Poleis

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City states

50
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What was Sparta known for

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Had a very strong military

51
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What age did children start at

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7 and ended at 60

52
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What did Solon do

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Became known as a wise ruler who improve life in Athens and is credited with setting free many Athenians in Slade for debt

53
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Pericles impact

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During this time was known as the golden age when he ruled Athens

54
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Socrates

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Hysteria on continually asking questions to clarify other person’s ideas

55
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Who was Plato

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Plateau was a student of Socrates, he opened a school called the Academy

56
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Who was Aristotle?

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He was most famous for his ideas about ethics

57
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What was the Greek religion based on?

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The Greek religion was based on an influential set of myths

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