Ancient Persia Quiz

The Medes and the Persians settled in an area now known as

• Egypt

• Turkey

• Iran

• Iraq

What did mountains, plains, and bodies of water do for the development of the Persian civilization?

• They caused frequent natural disasters and hindered transportation
• They provided natural barriers, suitable land for agriculture, and facilitated trade and transportation.
• They hindered agricultural development and trade
• They had no impact on the development of the Persian civilization

Cyrus II led the Persians in a rebellion against the

• Medes

• Egyptians

• Romans

• Greeks

The first rulers of Persia during the Achaemenid period were Cambyses, Herodotus, and

• Alexander

• Cyrus

• Xerxes

• Darius

A comparison of Cyrus's empire to Darius's empire reveals that

• both empires were equally large

• the two empires were not the same size

• Cyrus's empire was smaller

• Darius's empire was smaller

Darius was able to manage his expanded empire by

• avoiding the development of a central government

• building roads to connect the empire and maintaining a strong, well-trained military

• ignoring the needs of the people

• maintaining a strong, well-trained military only

Herodotus was known as the Father of History. (True/False)

• True

• False

The language spoken in ancient Persia by the common people.

• Latin

• Greek

• Aramaic

• Old Persian

King Xerxes led the Persians to defeat the Greeks at the battle of

• Salamis

• Plataea

• Marathon

• Thermopylae

A factor in the decline of the Persian empire includes that the people were discontent with the high

• taxes

• wages

• prices

• interest rates