Who were the Persians?

• a group of warriors that sailed down the Nile and conquered Egypt and spread into the Mediterranean

• a group from the mountains north of Mesopotamia that built a powerful empire

• a group of nomads that moved south into Greece and later became the Athenians and Spartans

• a lost tribe of Phoenicians that found America and set up a settlement on the island of Nova Scotia

How did the Persians worship?

• they worshiped the light and fought against the dark

• they were Buddhists

• they worshiped Baal - a common god throughout Mesopotamia

• they worshiped water and the god of the rivers

Who was the first major leader of the Persians?

• Menelaus

• Priam

• Cyrus

• Pericles

What did Cyrus accomplish?

• conquered the Egyptians

• conquered Babylon and most of the region

• conquered the Greeks

• conquered India

What did Cyrus' son - Cambyses - accomplish?

• conquered the Greeks

• conquered Egypt

• conquered the Babylonians

• conquered the Mongolians

After Cambyses, who was the next major ruler of the vast Persian Empire?

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Leonidas

• Darius

• Xerxes

What happened at the Battle of Marathon?

• a vastly outnumbered Greek army defeated the Persians

• the Persian navy was destroyed by a storm, saving the Greeks

• the Persian navy was defeated by stronger Greek ships

• the Persians defeated the Greeks after a strong defense

The movie 300 tells the story of the Battle of Thermopylae which was...

• a clear victory against the Persians by a smaller Greek army

• a battle of several days where around 300 Spartans fought off the entire Persian Army before finally losing

• a naval battle where 300 Greek ships defeated over 1000 Persian ships and saved Athens from destruction

• a battle that lasted 300 days where the Persians were eventually defeated by the Spartans

Who was Xerxes?

• the son of Darius that attacked Greece

• the father of Cyrus that told him to build an empire

• the general of the Persians sent by the emperor to conquer Greece

• the queen of the Persians that led her army into battle in Egypt

What was the result of the Battle of Salamis?

• The Greek navy defeated the Persian navy

• the Persian army burned Athens

• the Persians defeated the Spartans at Plataea

• a storm destroyed the Persian navy