chapter 9 vocab Flashcards
Cyrus Great
Cyrus the Great was so successful as the empor
cavalry
A cavalry is a unit of soldiers who ride horses
Darius l
Claimed the throne and killed his rivals for power
Persian
this invasion began a series of wars between Persia and Greece that historians call the Persian War
Xerxes l
Tried to conquer Greece again in 480 BC
alliance
or an agreement to work together
Peloponnesian War
A war between Athens and Sparta that threatened to tear all of Greece aparty
Philip ll
Became king of Macedonia
phalanx
Was a group of warriors who stood close together in a square
Alexander the Great
Made him one of the greatest conquerors in history
Hellenistic
or Greek-like
Socrates
He believed that people must never stop looking for konwledge
Plato
Was a student of Socrates
Aristotle
Plato’s student he taught
reason
or clear and ordered thinking