Vocab
What is the definition of diversity?
Variety
How many of the 5 Persian ruled Persian Empires are there?
3
How many Persian Empires were Greco-Macedonian?
2
What was a royal road?
roads used for official empire business.
What is a reason that there is little history on Persia?
Ancient Persia relied largely on oral history.
What is a satrap?
ruler of the “countries” of ancient Persia, who answered to the king
The Achaemenid Empire was the biggest of the Persian Empires. Name two modern day countries that existed inside of that empire?
Libya, Greece, Macedonia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc.
The Achaemenid Empire was a Persian ruled empire. What Macedonian ended this empire?
Alexander the Great
What was a steppe road?
earliest connections across the Eurasian steppe
What is a subject state?
Controlled by a central state
What is Qanat?
a system of underground channels used to irrigate arid and semiarid locations
How did the Persians communicate across their large empire?
Roads
What is the name of the empire that was ran by the generals of Alexander the Great?
Seleukid Empire
What was a parasol?
A light umbrella
What is a central state?
the governing domain of an empire
What is the Parthian shot?
a military tactic in which an archer rides away from an enemy, but shoots back over his or her shoulder
Persians often used large animals to do what to their enemies?
What empire lasted only 7 years?
Alexander the Great's
What is the difference between the canal that Xerxes I and Darius built?
Darius’s canal seems to have been made for continued use, while Xerxes’s was for one occasion.
Emperors often wanted to gain what over their subject states?
Legitimacy
What is syncretism?
The blending of religions
What is a lasso?
a rope tied in a way to help catch animals4
The Persians used what sport to help improve their skills for battle?
hunting
What is a multilingual society?
A society that has multiple spoken languages
Why were Persian cities often seen as places where others would meet?
People from different cultures mixed there.