Chapter 9 Flashcards
A unit soldiers mounted on houses
Calvary
Founder of the Persian empire
Cyrus the Great
Persian empire who organized and expanded the empire
Darius I
A series of wars between Persia and Greece beginning in 480BC
Persian Wars
Persian emperor who led the second invasion of Greece in 480BC
Xerxes I
An agreement to work together
Alliance
A war between the two great Greek City-States of Athens and Sparta in the 400 BC
Peloponnesian War
Powerful king in Macedonia/// ATGs father
Philip ll
A group of warriors who stood close together in a square
Phalanx
King of Macedonia who built the largest empire the world had even seen
Alexander the Great (ATG)
The first of the Great Greek thinkers and teachers
Socrates
Teacher and thinker, student of Socrates, and founder of the academy
Plato
Philosopher who taught that people should live lives of moderation based on reason
Aristotle
Clear and ordered thinking
Reason
Great and influential mathematician
Euclid