Unit 1 and Persian Empire

History Class

100

This is the study of past events that have impacted our world, and help us understand why peoples, cultures, and countries are in their current state

History

200

This is the study of places and the relationships between people and their environments

Geography

300

This is the study of governments and politics

Civics

400

This is the study of how a society uses it limited resources

Economics

500

This is the 5 themes of geography... I'll give you the last one: Human/Environment Interaction

Location, Place, Region, Movement

Historical Thinking Skills/Civic Online Reasoning

100

This skill asks the reader to consider who wrote a document as well as when, why, and for what purpose was it written?

Sourcing

200

This skill is also known as cross-checking, which asks students to consider details and evidence across multiple sources to strengthen a claim

Corroboration

300

This skill is related to being online, someone who works to discover the differences between news articles and biased advertisements

Good Digital Citizen

400

This is the process of finding a source, then tabbing out to a new tab to find other sources to verify the original source

Lateral Reading

500

You should always start with lateral reading when verifying a source, but what are the next two steps?

Vertical reading and corroboration

Empires

100

This is a group of countries or regions that are controlled by one ruler, often an emperor

Empire

200

This is the first known empire in human history

Sumer

300

This is the first great empire in human history, covering 30 - 50 % of the entire human population of the world in 500 BC

Persian (Achaemenid) Empire

400

This is the Persians long time enemy, fighting in multiple wars throughout their histories

Greece (Athens, Sparta)

500

This is the most important geographical feature for all classical empires, with almost all (excluding China) developing along its coastline

Mediterranean

Cyrus the Great

100

While history remembers them as the Persian Empire, this is the true name of the empire

Achaemenid

200

This is the next great king after Cyrus, remembered as the Engineer

Darius I

300

This is the name of Cyrus the Great's son, who helped him establish the empire and ruled after he was killed fighting the Scythians

Cambyses II

400

Cyrus the Great established his empire after conquering this region, which eventually become the heart of Persia

Babylon, Mesopotamia, Neo-Babylonian Empire

500

This is the homeland of Cyrus the Great and the Persians, which still views Cyrus as the forefather of their country today

Iranian plateau (Iran)

Achaemenid Empire

100

These two rivers ran through the heart of the Achaemenid Empire, also known as the Cradle of Civilization

Tigris and Euphrates

200

Conquering of this region along the Nile River in northeastern Africa was instrumental for Cyrus solidifying his power 

Egypt

300

This young emperor brought about the end of the Achaemenid Empire, and spread Greek influence throughout the region

Alexander the Great

400

This is the last king of the Persians, remembered for losing  battles against the Macedonians and being killed by his own governor

Darius III

500

The Royal Roads were an early pioneer of a network of roads stretching across the entire empire, eventually connected to the Roman Roads, and then to this network of roads that stretched across all of Afroeurasia

Silk Roads