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Achaemenids

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Astyages was King of the

a)

Persians

b)

Egyptians

c)

Assyrians

d)

Medes

2.

What general was supposed to kill sweet baby Cyrus?

a)

Astyages

b)

Harpagus

c)

Mithradates

d)

Cambyses

3.

Where does Cyrus defeat Astyages?

a)

Pelusium

b)

Passargad

c)

Thymbra

d)

Marathon

4.

Who kills Cyrus?

a)

Mithradates

b)

Miltiades

c)

Tomyris

d)

Spargapises

5.

Croesus, King of Lydia, ruled from

a)

Sardis

b)

Byzantium

c)

Susa

d)

Persepolis

6.

At what battle in 490 was Darius defeated by the Athenians?

a)

Thermopylae

b)

Marathon

c)

Issus

d)

Pelusium

7.

What did Darius demand of Athens and Sparta?

a)

oil and vinegar

b)

earth and water

c)

wind and fire

d)

peanut butter and jelly

8.

Who lost an army in the Western Desert and stabbed himself in the leg?

a)

Darius

b)

Cambyses II

c)

Cyrus

d)

Artaxerxes

9.

Sardis was connected to Persepolis and Passargad via the

a)

military industrial complex

b)

Eyes and Ears of the King

c)

Royal Road

d)

Persian Express

10.

The Persian term for a regional governor

a)

Tyrant

b)

Nomarch

c)

Proconsul

d)

Satrap

11.

Who ordered the Lashing and Chaining of the Hellespont?

a)

Darius

b)

Xerxes

c)

Cyrus

d)

Smerdis

12.

The last major battle of Xerxes' reign, where did Kimon and the Delian League throw the Persians out of the Aegean?

a)

Salamis

b)

Eurymedon

c)

Thermopylae

d)

Platea

13.

What mythological hero was the founding father of the Persians?

a)

Perseus

b)

Pegasus

c)

Achilles

d)

Hercules

14.

What Greek general and historian invaded Artaxerxes II's Persia?

a)

Alexander the Great

b)

Xenophon

c)

Thucydides

d)

Herodotus

15.

Ahura Mazda is the chief divinity of ...

a)

Zoroastrianism

b)

Buddhism

c)

Christianity

d)

Islam