Chapter 7 Lesson 3 : Greece and Persia

Defeated the Greeks at Thermopylae

• Cyrus

• Xerxes

• Zoroaster

• Leonidas

Religious teacher who preached a new monotheistic religion ________________________________

• Zoroaster

• Cyrus

• Xerxes

• Leonidas

Soldiers fighting on horseback

• calvary

• horseback riders

• zoroaster

• xerxes

King from Sparta who led soldiers into battle at Thermopylae

• Zoroaster

• Xerxes

• Leonidas

• Cyrus

Expanded the Persian Empire with his strong army

• Zoroaster

• Xerxes

• Cyrus

• Leonidas

What caused the Persian Empire to decline?

• Their army was too

  weak to protect the entire empire

• The king was taxing

  the Persians heavily.

• The royal family was

  fighting over who should be the leader.

• All answer choices

Persian King Darius I _________________________

• did away with separate

  governors in each province

• sent the Zoroastrians

  into exile.

• established a citizen

  army to serve during times of war

• reorganized the

  Persian government to make it more efficient.

Cyrus the Great held his growing empire together by ____________________

• treating conquered people fairly.

• establishing harsh military rule.

• limiting travel between provinces

• building strong

  fortresses in each conquered land

The Greeks won the battle of _______ because their ships were faster and easier to maneuver.

• Marathon

• Thermopylae

• Salamis

• Plataea

The Persians won the Battle of Thermopylae because ___________________________.

• they had faster ships.

• the Spartans decided to fight with them.

• the Greeks loaded their cavalry onto ships.

• a Greek traitor gave the Persians secret information.