Chapter 64: The Persian Wars (first half)

Question 1

Aeschylus

Answer 1

he was a Greek poet.

Question 2

Amyntas I

Answer 2

he was the ninth Argead king of Macedonia.

Question 3

Argead

Answer 3

this is the warrior clan where the first Macedonian kings came from. It was mostly Greek.

Question 4

Cleomenes

Answer 4

he was the elder king of Sparta, a prophetess at Delphi told him that it was his divine duty to overthrow the tyranny of Athens.

Question 5

Helot

Answer 5

it was a large group of underclass who were conquered who could not be trusted as citizens: slaves and laborers. They lay under the group of native Spartan citizens.

Question 6

Mandrocles

Answer 6

he was an Ionian/Greek engineer. Darius built a bridge across the Bosphorus Strait so he could visit Mandrocles.

Question 7

Megabazus

Answer 7

he was the Persian general to Darius, he was given the orders to conquer Thrace using Darius’s army.

Question 8

Peisistratus

Answer 8

he was the leader of the group Men of the Hills, on of the groups of Solon’s reforms. In the words of Aristotle, he was “an extreme democrat.”

Question 9

Royal Road

Answer 9

it was a road built by Darius to give himself easy access to Sardis. It stretched from Susa all the way into the Asia Minor.

Question 10

Skudra

Answer 10

this was the name of the conquered land of Thrace that became a new Persian satrapy.