Geography
The biome/type of land in Persia
What is the desert?
The form of government founded in Athens
What is Democracy?
The two empires involved in the Persian Wars
Who are Greece and Persia?
The letters of the Greek alphabet in the name of our alphabet
What are alpha & beta?
The method of Cyrus the Great to offer reward before punishment of conquered nations
What is the carrot & stick method?
Two main geographic features of Ancient Greece
What is mountains and seas/coastlines?
The Persian form of Government
What is absolute monarchy?
The "bottleneck" battle where the Persian army was forced through a narrow mountain pass
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
Aristotle's method of organizing animals and plants into groups
What is classification?
(will take backbone/no backbone; trees, herbs and shrubs)
A major achievement of Darius the Great connecting the east and west of the Persian Empire
What is the Royal Road?
Benefit of Greece's geographic location
Increased trade by sea; access to other regions for war
The names of the independently governed sections of Greece
What are city-states?
An act of retaliation by Xerxes for the Greeks tricking him in the Battle of Thermopylae
What is the burning of Athens?
Plato viewed the world as this
What is imperfect?
Persian ruler known as "the builder"
Who is Darius the Great?
The Persian technological innovation that allowed them to collect water and settle in one place instead of being nomadic
What is Qanats?
The governors of Persian lands
Who are Satraps?
The naval battle where large Greek ships were used as battering rams to defeat the Persian navy
What is the Battle of Salamis?
The method of questioning to find knowledge
What is the socratic method?
The effect of Artaxerxes' death
What is an 80 year civil war?
The reason Greece established colonies
Needed more food and land for growing population
The type of economic system shown when the Persian government built the Royal Road
What is Socialism?
The method that Alexander the Great finally took over Persia
What is marrying Darius III's daughter after he died?
The greek achievement in astronomy
What is identifying the method to predict eclipses?
The drawback of Artaxerxes building project: the Hall of 100 Columns and other Persian rulers' building projects
Increased taxes