chapter 9 Flashcards
1
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Cyrus the Great
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He had great success
2
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cavalry
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is a unit of soldiers who ride horses
3
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Darius
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claimed to the throne and killed all his rivals for power
4
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Persian
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a war between Persia and Greece
5
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Xerxes I
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tried to conquer Greece again
6
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alliance
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an agreement to work together
7
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Peloponnesian War
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a war between Athens and Sparta, to tear Greece apart
8
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Philip II
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became king of Macedonia
9
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phalanx
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was a group of warriors who stood close together in a square
10
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Alexander the Great
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Alexander’s efforts to build an empire made him one of the greatest conquerors in history
11
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Hellenistic
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Greek-like
12
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Socrates
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he believed that people should never stop thinking
13
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Plato
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a student of Socrate
14
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Aristotle
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Greeks greatest thinking
15
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reason
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clear and ordered thinking
