Greece Vocabulary - Section 3 - 5

The founder of the Persian Empire.

• Cyrus the Great

• Alexander the Great

• Darius I

A unit of soldiers mounted on horses.

• Cavalry

• Phalanx

• Army

Persian emperor who organized and expanded the empire.

• Cyrus the Great

• Alexander the Great

• Darius I

A series of wars between Persia and Greece beginning in 480 BC.

• Persian Wars

• Peloponnesian Wars

Persian emperor who led the second invasion of Greece in 480 BC.

• Darius I

• Cyrus the Great

• Xerxes I

An agreement to work together.

• Phalanx

• Cavalry

• Alliance

A war between the two great Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in the 400s BC.

• Persian Wars

• Peloponnesian Wars

Powerful king of Macedonia.

• Philip II

• Xerxes I

• Darius I

A group of warriors who stood close together in a square.

• Cavalry

• Phalanx

• Alliance

King of Macedonia who built the largest empire the world had ever seen.

• Philip II

• Alexander the Great

• Cleisthenes