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. |