chapter 9 vocab

Question 1

cyrus the great

Answer 1

he had many successes

Question 2

cavalry

Answer 2

is a unit of soldiers who ride horses

Question 3

Darius

Answer 3

there was a prince named

Question 4

persian

Answer 4

this invasion began a series of wars between Persia and Greece

Question 5

xerxes

Answer 5

ten years after the battle of marathon Darius son

Question 6

alliance

Answer 6

an agreement to work together

Question 7

peloponnesian

Answer 7

a war between Athens and Sparta that threatened to tear all of Greece apart

Question 8

Philip II

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

he built an empire made him one of the greatest conquerors in History.

Question 11

hellenistic

Answer 11

greek like

Question 12

socrates

Answer 12

among the greatest thinkers was a man named Socrates

Question 13

plato

Answer 13

was a student of Socrates

Question 14

Aristotle

Answer 14

the greatest Greek thinker

Question 15

reason

Answer 15

clear or ordered thinking

Question 16

euclid

Answer 16

some greeks spent their lives studying mathematics one of these people was Euclid

Question 17

hippocrates

Answer 17

the greatest Greek doctor