Chapter 9 Flashcards
Cyrus The Great
He was an empire that stayed strong
cavalry
an army of soldiers that ride horses
Darius 1
4 years of a young prince
Persian Wars
This invasion began a series of wars between Persia and Greece That historians call the
Xerxes
Darius son tired to conquer Greece
alliance
agreement to work together
Peloponnesian War
a war between Athens and Sparta that threatened to tear all of Greece apart
Philip ll
became the king of Macedonia
phalanx
was a group of warriors who stood close together in a square
Alexander the Great
His efforts on trying to build a empire
Hellenistic
Greek like
socrates
he believed that people must never stop learning knowledge
Plato
was a student of Socrates
Aristotle
Socrates student
reason
or clear and ordered thinking