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Who is Cyrus?
What is Cyrus was the first Achaemenid King who conquered Lydia in order to expand.
Who did Darius follow for the use of coins?
What is The Lydians
What are imperial bureaucrats?
What is they were a new class because the requirements for imperial administration called for one. They did not directly challenge patriarchal warriors.
What type of family did Zarathustra come from?
What is an aristocratic family.
Who praised Ahura Mazda?
What is Darius, Cyrus, and Cambyses
Who is Darius, and what did he do?
What is a younger kinsman of Cyrus that eventually became the greatest Achaemenid emperor. He greatly expanded the empire.
What did coins help accomplish in empires?
What is they made taxes and trade more organized and helped the income for the military.
What people are considered a part of free classes?
What is artisans, craftsmen, merchants, low ranking civil servants, priests, and priestesses.
What are the Gathas?
What is they are hymns that honor various deities.
What did the arrival of Alexander of Macedon inaugurate? How?
What is a difficult era of the Zoroastrian community by burning many temples and killing numerous Magi.
What are satrapies, and how did they benefit the empire?
What is they were governors appointed to serve as agents of the central administration. They oversaw affairs in the various regions of the empire.
Who were the parthians and what did they do?
What is they were lords of powerful empires in Iran that went after the Seleucids along with keeping nomadic traditions and customs and not having a centralized government.
What parts of the Persian empire were fertile land?
What is Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, and Northern India.
In Zoroastrianism, what was the name of the even and malign spirit?
What is Angra Mainyu.
Where were many Jewish communities established?
What is Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Persia
What led to the fall of the Achaemenid empire?
What is Rebellion / Xerxes ending the policy of toleration / the Persian wars / Alexander of Macedon and his troops
What happened during the reign of Shapur (239-272 C.E.)
What is the Sasanids stabilized their western frontier and created a series of buffer states between themselves and the Roman empire.
What lands were linked due to long distance trade in the Persian empire?
What is India and Egypt
Fill in the blank of the summarized moral teaching of Zoroastrianism: good___, good ___ good ___.
What is Words, Thoughts, Deeds
Why did the Parthians cultivate the Zoroastrian faith?
What is to rally support against the Seleucids.
What did the royal road help to do?
What is it helped the empire better accomplish diffusion through communication and trade.
What were the Parthian conquests?
What is when Parthians began to fight for their independence from the Seleucids.
Why did people become slaves?
What is they were either in debt or prisoners of war.
When did Zarathustra's teachings begin to grow large numbers?
What is the 6th century B.C.E.
What faiths did Zoroastrian teachings find their way into?
What is Judiaism, Christianity, and Islam