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Persia Terms

Total questions: 7

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a system of departments and agencies formed to carry out the work of government?

a)

Persia

b)

Bureaucracy

c)

Tolerance

d)

Xerxes

2.

What is the ability or willingness to acknowledge the existence of something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with?

a)

Royal Road

b)

Zoroastrianism

c)

Darius l

d)

Tolerance

3.

What is the road in the Persian empire, stretching over 1,600 miles from Susa in Persia to Sardis in Anatolia

a)

Royal Road

b)

Tolerance

c)

Cyrus II

d)

Bureaucracy

4.

The religion started by Persian prophet Zoroaster. Believed that the fate of a person’s soul is determined by that person’s actions. Good people would go to heaven and bad people would go to a fiery pit.

a)

Zoroastrianism

b)

Royal Road

c)

Darius l

d)

Cyrus ll

5.

This Persian leader conquered all of the Fertile Crescent and most of Anatolia. Know for kindness towards conquered peoples. Let Hebrews return to Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity. (c. 600 or 576 – 530 BC)

a)

Xerxes

b)

Bureaucracy

c)

Cyrus II (Great)

d)

Darius I

6.

This Persian leader consolidated the Persian Empire with a well regulated government. Government had 20 provinces that with a royally appointed governor over each. Created Royal Road and manufactured metal coins. Failed to conquer Greece. (c. 550–486 BC)

a)

Cyrus II (Great)

b)

Zoroastrianism

c)

Xerxes

d)

Darius I

7.

The son and heir of Persian Emperor Darius I. Led Persian campaign of 480 b.c. to conquer Greece. Held up by Spartans at Thermopylae. Set back by Athenians at Salamis. Defeated by Spartans at Plataea. (519–465 BC)

a)

Zoroastrianism

b)

Xerxes

c)

Tolerance

d)

Cyrus ll