Are you "Cyrius?"
Heir to Mesopotamia
What is Persia?
A province and its governor
What is a satrapy and a satrap?
Location of Greek Poleis that rebelled against Darius
Where is Anatolia?
Xerxes' Motivation to start the second Persian War
What is revenge?
A channel between two land masses
What is a strait?
How the Persian Army differed from the Greek Army
What is a professional military?
Reorganized Persian government into provinces
Who is Darius I?
Founder of Persian Empire
Who is Cyrus the Great (II)
Elite Persian fighting force
What are the Immortals?
Darius' motivation for invading Greece
What is for revenge? Or to punish?
Spartan Leader in Persian War II
Who is Leonidas?
The Athenians lured the Persians into this narrow strait where they were easily destroyed.
Where is Salamis?
Greek Historian who wrote "The Histories" and immortalized the 300.
Who is Herodotus?
Why Persia declined
What is it was weakened by Persian Wars?
Adverb describing how Cyrus treated conquered people
What is fairly?
Monotheistic religion founded by Zoroaster
What is Zoroastrianism?
Location of first battle of Persian Wars
Where is Marathon?
Athenian strategist and leader in Persian War II
Who is Themistocles?
After losing at Salamis the Persians burnt this polis.
Where is Athens?
A plan
What is a strategy?
Cyrus conquered Anatolia, the Middle East and _________
What is Mesopotamia?
Network of roads linking Anatolia to Persia
What is the Royal Road?
Supreme God revealed by Zoroaster
Who is Ahura-Mazda?
The number of Darius' soldiers
What is 20,000?
Location of narrow pass where 300 Spartans tried to hold the Persian Army
Where is Thermopylae?
Where 200,000 soldiers fought to decide the last battle of the Persian Wars
Where is Plataea?
In 449 BC this was declared
What is peace?
Cyrus' son who died in a rebellion and was replaced by Darius
Who is Cambyses?
Cyrus' empire was roughly the size of what modern nation?
What is The United States of America?
Made Zoroastrianism a state religion
Who were the Sasanians?
When the Athenian messenger (runner) collapsed after running 25+ miles he exclaimed
What is "Victory!"
Why the Persians won at Thermopylae
What is a Greek traitor?
Weakened by war with the Greeks and internal strife, Persia could not withstand the attack of this commander
Who is Alexander the Great?
The Spartans that remained to defend the Thermopylae Pass until death
Who are the 300?
In the movie 300, the last statement Leonidas made to the Persian ambassador