social studies chapter 9 2hr

Question 1

Cyrus the Great

Answer 1

Cyrus let people keep their gods and he was successful because the way he treated people was fear

Question 2

cavalry

Answer 2

soldiers who ride horse

Question 3

Darius 1

Answer 3

Darius 1 claimed the throne and killed his rivals for power

Question 4

Persian Wars

Answer 4

Nine years after the Greek cities rebelled, Darius invaded Greece He and his army sailed to the plains of Marathon near Athens This invasion began a series of wars between Persia and Greece that historians call the Persian Wars

Question 5

Xerxes 1

Answer 5

Ten years after the battle of Marathon, Darius’s son Xerxes 1 tried to conquer Greece again

Question 6

alliance

Answer 6

alliance or an agreement to work together

Question 7

Peloponnesian War

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Philip 2

Answer 8

In 359 BC Philip 2 became king of Macedonia

Question 9

Alexander the Great

Answer 9

Alexander’s effort to build an empire made him one of the greatest conquerors in history these efforts earned him the name Alexnder the Great

Question 10

Hellenistic

Answer 10

Hellenistic or Greek-like

Question 11

Socrates

Answer 11

Socrates was a man who believed people should never stop looking for knowledge

Question 12

Plato

Answer 12

Plato was a student of Socrates like Socrates he was a teacher as well as a philosopher

Question 13

Aristotle

Answer 13

Aristotle was perhaps the greatest Greek thinker he was Plato’s student

Question 14

reason

Answer 14

reason or clear and ordered thinking

Question 15

Euclid

Answer 15

Some Greeks spent there lives studying mathematics One of these people was Euclid

Question 16

Hippocrates

Answer 16

Hippocrates was the greatest Greek doctor

Question 17

strategy

Answer 17

strategy or a knowledge

Question 18

phalanx

Answer 18

phalanx was a group of warriors who stood together in a square