15 Greece Quizlet Cards
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- Persia
- Now a day Iran. The people there were warriors and nomads that grew cattle.
- Cyrus The Great
- United the Persians into a powerful ruler. He captured Mesopotamia, Asia Minor and Canaaan. He treated all his new subjects well by letting all the cuptured Jews go back to Israel.
- Darius
- A ruler of Persia that divided the empire into 20 city-states and each ruled by an official.
- Satrapies
- The 20 provinces that Darius divided persia into.
- Satrap
- The official that ruled a city-state in Persia. Their name ment "potector of the kingdom."
- Persian Soldiers
- Full-time soldiers that were paid by bthe government. They were trained soldiers who guarded the king.
- Zorioastrianism
- The Persian religion. The founders name was Zoraster who preached after seeing visions of a young man. There is still a small number of followers today.
- Marathon
- A plain where the Persians were held not too far from Athens.
- Xerxes
- Next Persian king after his father, Darius, died. He started a new invasion for the second time in Greece, this time with many more troops.
- Leonidas
- King of the Spartans during the time when Persia attacked Greece for the second time. He served as a commander in that war.
- Themistocles
- An Athenian general who planned to attack Persia.
- Thermopylae
- A narrow pass through the mountains that was easy to defend. The Greeks used it to stall the Persians from attacking.
- Pheidippides
- A messenger who delivered the news to the Greeks that they had won. He ran 25 miles from Marathon to Athens he then collapsed to the ground and died.
- Salamis
- A narrow strait of water inbetween two areas of land. This was a location where the Greeks and Persians were in battle while on boats.
- Platea
- A land mass norhtwest of Athens which the Greeks won. This was a main turning point of the wholwre war which the Greeks ended up winning.