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As you read, answer:
Persian Empire
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From whose records does most known information about
the Persian Empire come?
a. Greeks
b. Romans
c. Assyrians
What were Persian rulers called?
a. Medes
b. Achaemednids
c. Kurush
Who united various Persian tribes around 550BCE?
a. Cyrus
b. Darius I
c. Satrap
How did Darius I change the organizational structure of
the Persian Empire?
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What period began when Phoenician ships began visiting
the Aegean, igniting trade opportunities for the Greeks?
a. Archaic
b. Iron Age
c. Classical
10. How did geography limit the unity of Greek city-states?
11. What was the relationship between hoplite warfare and
agriculture?
12. Why did political rights extend to more people in Greece
over time?
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Who finished the project at Persepolis?
a. Darius I
b. Xerxes
c. Ahuramazda
Describe the principles of Zoroastrianism.
13. Upon the rejection of tyrants, what two authority styles
were prominent in Greece?
14. List a few tenets of Greek religion.
Rise of Greece
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8.
What seas border Greece? Check all that apply.
a. Mediterranean
b. Black
c. Ionian
d. Aegean
What adjectives would describe Greece during the Dark
Ages?
15. Who is recognized as the first historian?
a. Xenophanes
b. Herodotus
c. Pericles
16. What city was located in the Peloponnese?
a. Athens
b. Sparta
c. Acropolis
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17. How did a fear of a helot uprising shape the Spartan way
of life?
18. What area did Athens control?
a. Sparta
b. Attica
c. Delian League
19. How was power split among social classes by Solon?
20. How did Pericles move Athens toward democracy?
Persia VS Greece
21. What event changed the relative harmony of Greeks
living in Cyrus’s territory in Lydia?
a. Persian War
b. Ionian Revolt
c. Peloponnesian War
22. What cities did Darius target in the Persian Wars?
23. What alliance formed to resist Persian occupation in
Greece?
a. Hellenistic Kingdom
b. Delian League
c. Hellenic League
24. What alliance formed among Greeks to use naval force to
remove Persians from the eastern Mediterranean?
a. Hellenistic Kingdom
b. Delian League
c. Hellenic League
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25. What period began when the Persians were removed
from Greece and Athens emerged as an imperial power?
a. Dark Ages
b. Classical Period
c. Hellenistic Age
26. Why was the Athenian navy more beneficial than the
Spartan hoplite militia?
27. What was the goal of Socrates’ philosophical
conversations?
28. Who was the student of Socrates?
a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c. Herodotus
29. Who was a student of Plato’s academy?
a. Aristotle
b. Socrates
c. Sophocles
30. What future leader was tutored by Aristotle?
a. King Philip II of Macedonia
b. Alexander the Great
c. Xerxes
31. What were the characteristics of slaves in Classical
Greece?
32. Describe the gender roles of men and women in Classical
Greece.
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33. What war began in 431BCE and was fought between the
alliance structures of Sparta and Athens?
a. Peloponnesian War
b. Second Persian War
c. Sicilian War
34. What leader forcibly united the Greek city-states?
40. Why was the Ptolomies’ rule in Egypt relatively easy
compared to the Seleucids?
35. Who was Alexander the Great pursuing in his conquests
around Asia?
41. What two cities did not join a confederation to defend
against the Antigonid dynasty in Macedonia?
36. How did Alexander the Great maintain land conquered in
Persia?
Hellenistic Age
37. All of these were kingdoms broken from Alexander the
Great’s vast empire upon his death, except:
a. Seleucid
b. Ptolemaic
c. Antigonid
d. Alexandrian
38. When did the Hellenistic Age begin?
39. What challenges existed for the Seleucids?
42. Why did some members of indigenous peoples learn
Greek language and adopt Greek culture in the
Hellenistic states?
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Big Questions
1. Describe the historical development and the economic basis of the Persian Empire, and discuss the religious and
political justifications for kingship and the mechanisms that the Persians developed for successful administration of
their extensive and diverse empire.
2. Describe the geographical, economic, and technological bases and the social structure of Archaic and classical Greek
civilization and analyze the causes of the political evolution that led to the polis and democracy.
3. Evaluate the causes and effects of the struggle between Persia and Greece.
4. Analyze the significance and both the short- and long- term influence of Persian and Greek culture in the
Mediterranean and western Asian worlds.