Chapter 9 vocab Flashcards
1
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Cyrus the great
A
That is what historians called him
2
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Cavalry
A
A Cavalry is a unit of soldiers who ride horses
3
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Darius
A
He killed his rivals for power
4
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Persian Wars
A
The invasion of series of wars between Persian and Greece that historians called the Persian Wars
5
Q
Xerxes I
A
Tried to conquer Greece again
6
Q
Alliance
A
Or an agreement to work together
7
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Peloponnesian War
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A War between Athens and Sparta
8
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Phalanx
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Was a group of warriors who stood close together in a square
9
Q
Alexsander the great
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This effort earned him the name
10
Q
Hellenistic
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Or Greek-like
11
Q
Neutral
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Thucydides tried to be Neutral in his writing
12
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Socrates
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One of the greatest thinker
13
Q
Plato
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Was a student of Socrates
14
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Reasons
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Clear or ordered thinking
15
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Aristotle
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Perhaps the greatest Greek thinker
