AP Persian History and Culture

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Bureaucracy

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A system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials

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Zarathustra (Zoroaster)

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The mythical founder of chief prophet of the Ancient Persian religion known as Zoroastrianism, which influenced Jewish and later Christian and Islamic belief.

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Daric

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The coin used in the Persian empire; named after Darius I.

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Susa

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Situated on the Karun River on the southeastern corner of the Mesopotamian plain, on the Iranian side of the Iran-Iraq border, where Mesopotamia touches the foothills of the Zagros Mountains. The less ceremonial of Persia's two capital cities.

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Persepolis

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A complex of palaces, reception halls, and treasury buildings erected by the Persian kings Darius I and Xerxes in the Persian homeland. The spiritual capital and greatest palace-city of the Persian Empire, destroyed by Alexander the Great.

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Iran

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Modern day Persia

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Satrap

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A provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire.

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Angra Manyu

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The force of evil and vice in Zoroastrianism

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Ahura Mazda

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Monotheistic God of Zoroastrianism who represented truth and goodness and was perceived to be in an eternal struggle with the malign spirit Angra Mainyu.

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Achaemenids

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Persian dynasty which traced its lineage back to an ancestor named Achaemenes; founded by Cyrus