People
God gave the queen favor with Xerxes and brought deliverance for His people.
Who is Easter?
Cliff that interpreted the script resulting in understanding ancient civilization
Cliff of Behistun
Persia achieved its greatest wealth.
What is Sassanid?
The common language in the Persian Empire
Founded the main religion of ancient Persia
Who is Zoroaster?
Burned down Persepolis
Alexander the Great
The name of the providence that the Persian family lived in.
What is Satrapy?
The dynasty that Cyrus II was called.
What is Achaemenid?
Allowed the Israelites to return to Judah to rebuild the temple
Who is Cyrus?
Ordered his soldiers to beat the waters of the Hellespont
Who is Xerxes?
Hebrew name for the Persian king Xerxes?
Who is Ahasureus?
The Persian capital city under Cyrus
What is Pasagadae?
A period in Persian history where culture spread throughout Asia
What is Hellenistic?
Ordered that the Jews be allowed to continue to rebuilding, that help be given with their expenses, and that anyone that changed his order would die.
Who is Darius?
Won the battle of Marathon
What is Greece?
Traveled to Israel to rebuild the wall.
Nehemiah
The strait between Asia Minor and Greece
Persians' wedge-shaped symbols look similar to the ancient Sumerians.
What is Cuneiform?
Priests in the Persian empire
Who are Magi?
Won the battle of Thermopylae
What is Persia?
The Persian who plotted to destroy all the Jews.
Who is Haman?
King Artaxerxes I allowed some Jews to return to rebuild the wall.
What is Jerusalem?
The god of Zoroastrianism.
What is monotheism?
King's own special military force
Who are immortals?
Won the battle of Salamis
What is Greece?