chapter 9 vocab Flashcards
1
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cyrus the great
A
he had many successes
2
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cavalry
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is a unit of soldiers who ride horses
3
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Darius
A
there was a prince named
4
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persian
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this invasion began a series of wars between Persia and Greece
5
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xerxes
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ten years after the battle of marathon Darius son
6
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alliance
A
an agreement to work together
7
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peloponnesian
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a war between Athens and Sparta that threatened to tear all of 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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he built an empire made him one of the greatest conquerors in History.
11
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hellenistic
A
greek like
12
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socrates
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among the greatest thinkers was a man named Socrates
13
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plato
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was a student of Socrates
14
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Aristotle
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the greatest Greek thinker
15
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reason
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clear or ordered thinking
