chapter 9 vocab

Question 1

Cyrus Great

Answer 1

Cyrus the Great was so successful as the empor

Question 2

cavalry

Answer 2

A cavalry is a unit of soldiers who ride horses

Question 3

Darius l

Answer 3

Claimed the throne and killed his rivals for power

Question 4

Persian

Answer 4

this invasion began a series of wars between Persia and Greece that historians call the Persian War

Question 5

Xerxes l

Answer 5

Tried to conquer Greece again in 480 BC

Question 6

alliance

Answer 6

or an agreement to work together

Question 7

Peloponnesian War

Answer 7

A war between Athens and Sparta that threatened to tear all of Greece aparty

Question 8

Philip ll

Answer 8

Became king of Macedonia

Question 9

phalanx

Answer 9

Was a group of warriors who stood close together in a square

Question 10

Alexander the Great

Answer 10

Made him one of the greatest conquerors in history

Question 11

Hellenistic

Answer 11

or Greek-like

Question 12

Socrates

Answer 12

He believed that people must never stop looking for konwledge

Question 13

Plato

Answer 13

Was a student of Socrates

Question 14

Aristotle

Answer 14

Plato’s student he taught

Question 15

reason

Answer 15

or clear and ordered thinking

Question 16

Euclid

Answer 16

He was interested in geometry

Question 17

Hippocrates

Answer 17

He wanted to figure out what caused diseases