| A | B |
| Persians | Great rulers, were fair. |
| Medes | People closely related to the Persians. |
| Cyrus the Great | King of Persia, founder of Persian empire. |
| Cavalry | composed of troops that seved on horseback. |
| Cambyses | King of Persia 529-522 |
| Darius I | King of Persia 521-486 |
| satraps | A governor of a provence in ancient Persia. |
| Persepolis | An ancient capital of Persia. |
| Zoroastrianism | a religion. |
| Persian Wars | A series of wars between Persia and Greece. |
| Battle of Marathon | War between Persia and Greece. |
| Xerxes I | son of Darius. King from 486-465 |
| Sparta | Ancient City in Greece. |
| Thermopylae | A passage in Eastern Greece between the cliffs of mountains. |
| Battle of Salamis | war fought in the straits using boats. |
| Plataea | An ancient city in Greece in Boeotia. Greeks defeated Persian here in 479 BC. |
| Lycurgus | A man in Sparta who created the military. |
| helots | slaves |
| alliance | an agreement to work together. |
| Delian League | a league of city states ruled by Athenians. |
| Peloponnesian League | a league of city states ruled by Spartans. |
| Pelopponesian War | a war between Athens and Sparta that threatened to tear Greece apart. |
| Philip II | King of macedonia, 359- B.C |
| phalanx | was a group of warriors who stood in a square. |
| Alexander the Great | Built great empires |
| Hellenistic | Greek-like |
| Socrates | Great thinkers was man |
| Plato | Was a student of Socrates. |
| Aristotle | The greatest thinker. |
| reason | Clear, Order thinker |
| Euclid | Greeks who study math. |
| Hippocrates | Greatest Greek doctor |
| Parthenon | Beautiful temple to the goddness. |
| Athena | Athens protector |
| Phidias | the sculptor who made the statues of athens. |
| Doric | Simple colums have no decoration. |
| Ionic | 6 scrool capital |
| Corinthian | The fanaist. |