Vocab

Question 1

Cyrus The Great

Answer 1

Was a great leader

Question 2

Cavalry

Answer 2

A cavalry is a unit of soldiers who ride horses

Question 3

Darius l

Answer 3

He claimed the throne and killed all his rivals

Question 4

Persian War

Answer 4

This invasion began a series of wars between Persia and Greece that historians called the Persian War

Question 5

Xerxes

Answer 5

Darius’s son who tried to conquer Greece in 480 bc

Question 6

Alliance

Answer 6

an agreement to work together

Question 7

Peloponnesian War

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Philip ll

Answer 8

in 59 b.c. he became king of Macedonia

Question 9

Phalanx

Answer 9

Phalanx was a group of warriors who stood close together in a square

Question 10

Hellenistic

Answer 10

Greek-Like

Question 11

Socrates

Answer 11

he believed people should never stop looking for knowledge

Question 12

Plato

Answer 12

he was a student of Socrates

Question 13

Aristotle

Answer 13

Plato’s student he taught that people should live lives of moderation

Question 14

Reason

Answer 14

Clean and ordered thinking

Question 15

Euclid

Answer 15

interested in geomotry

Question 16

Hippocrates

Answer 16

tried to figure out what caused dieseases