Natural resources that allowed Persia to trade with both east and west:

• copper/lead/gold

• coal/lapis/diamonds

• uranium/lead

The two major powers that emerged in the Persian homeland were

• Assyrians/Babylonians

• Medes/Chaldeans

• Medes/Persians

The Persian Empires homeland is modern day

• Turkey

• Canaan

• Syria

• Iran

His most enduring legacy is the method of governing and kindness towards conquered people.

• Cyrus the Great

• Nebuchadnezzar

• Cambyses

Cyrus the Great prevented his soldiers from

• celebrate/win

• invading/conquering

• looting/burning

Cyrus allowed this group of people to return to their homeland in Jerusalem.

Cyrus the Great's son was

• Darius

• Cambyses

• Ashurbanipal

Began his career as a member of the king's bodyguard, and rose to power with the Ten Thousand Immortals.

• Cyrus the Great

• Cambyses

• Darius

Darius's only failure was his inability to conquer

• Anatolia

• Egypt

• Greece

• Iran

Governors who ruled locally in the Persian Empire: