WorksheetsAchaemenids
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Astyages was King of the
Persians
Egyptians
Assyrians
Medes
What general was supposed to kill sweet baby Cyrus?
Astyages
Harpagus
Mithradates
Cambyses
Where does Cyrus defeat Astyages?
Pelusium
Passargad
Thymbra
Marathon
Who kills Cyrus?
Mithradates
Miltiades
Tomyris
Spargapises
Croesus, King of Lydia, ruled from
Sardis
Byzantium
Susa
Persepolis
At what battle in 490 was Darius defeated by the Athenians?
Thermopylae
Marathon
Issus
Pelusium
What did Darius demand of Athens and Sparta?
oil and vinegar
earth and water
wind and fire
peanut butter and jelly
Who lost an army in the Western Desert and stabbed himself in the leg?
Darius
Cambyses II
Cyrus
Artaxerxes
Sardis was connected to Persepolis and Passargad via the
military industrial complex
Eyes and Ears of the King
Royal Road
Persian Express
The Persian term for a regional governor
Tyrant
Nomarch
Proconsul
Satrap
Who ordered the Lashing and Chaining of the Hellespont?
Darius
Xerxes
Cyrus
Smerdis
The last major battle of Xerxes' reign, where did Kimon and the Delian League throw the Persians out of the Aegean?
Salamis
Eurymedon
Thermopylae
Platea
What mythological hero was the founding father of the Persians?
Perseus
Pegasus
Achilles
Hercules
What Greek general and historian invaded Artaxerxes II's Persia?
Alexander the Great
Xenophon
Thucydides
Herodotus
Ahura Mazda is the chief divinity of ...
Zoroastrianism
Buddhism
Christianity
Islam
