7.3 Ancient Greece

Who wrote History of the Persian Wars?

• Xerxes

• Herodotus

• Themistocles

• Cyrus

Persian King Darius I

• centralized the government by doing away with seperate governors in each province

• Sent the Zorastrians into exile

• set up a citizen army to serve in times of war

• reorganized the Persian government to make it more efficient

Cyrus the Great held his growing empire together by:

• harsh military rule

• limiting travel between provinces

• treating conquered people fairly

• building strong fortresses in each conquered land

Under King Cyrus, in the 540s BC, the Persian Empire conquered the lands of Anatolia, Syria, Canaan, and _______

• Athens

• Sparta

• Crete

• Mesopotamia

Which factors led to the decline of the Persian Empire?

• the army was weakened after losses to Greece and rulers disagreed about who should have power

• the people began to rebel against the Persian Kings, causing civil war

• A series of natural disasters devastated the Persian homeland

• the king's sons plotted to take over the throne, causing a civil war.

_______ defeated the Greeks at Thermopylae

• Zoroaster

• Cyrus

• Darius I

• Xerxes

• Leonidas

Religious teacher who preached a new monotheistic religion.

• Zoroaster

• Cyrus

• Darius I

• Xerxes

• Leonidas

_____ reorganized the government and divided the Persian Empire into satrapies

• Zoroaster

• Cyrus

• Darius I

• Xerxes

• Leonidas

King from Sparta who led soldiers into battle at Thermopylae

• Zoroaster

• Xerxes

• Leonidas

• Darius I

• Cyrus

_____ expanded the Persian Empire with his strong army

• Zoroaster

• Cyrus

• Darius I

• Xerxes

• Leonidas