Classical Persia

What was another name for the ancient Persian Empire?

• First Babylonian Empire
• Achaemenid Empire
• Archery Empire
• Darius

Who was the first leader of the Persian Empire?

• Xerxes
• Darius the Great
• Cyrus the Great
• Alexander the Great

The Persians conquered all of the following areas except. . .

• Israel
• Babylonia
• Egypt
• Greece

____________ was Persia's capital city built by Darius.

• Persepolis 
• Babylon
• Ziggurat
• Nineveh 

Put the Persian leaders in order from earliest to latest.

• Darius, Xerxes, Cyrus
• Cyrus, Xerxes, Darius
• Xerxes, Cyrus, Darius
• Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes

What is Zoroastrianism?

• A polytheistic religion of Persia
• A monotheistic religion of Persia
• A form of currency used in Persia
• The capital of the Persian Empire

Whom did Cyrus free from Babylonian captivity?

• the Ionians

• the Jewish people

• the captive Assyrian people

• early Christians

Who established the first  Persian Empire?

• Cyrus the Great
• Pericles
• Darius I
• Mr. Graham and Cooper

Who tried and failed to conquer the Greeks?

• Cyrus

• Darius I

• Xerces

• Darius III

What type of religion is Zoroastrianism?

• Monotheistic (belief in one god)

• Polytheistic (belief in many gods)

• Belief in the legendary Zoro

• Belief in Jesus Christ