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32 Cards in this Set
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First great Persian Empire; began under Cyrus and reached its peak under Darius
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Achaemenids
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main God of Zoroastrianism who represented truth and goodness and was percieved to be in an e ternal stuggle with the malign spirit Angra Mainyu
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Ahura Mazda
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Alexander the Great
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Alexander of Macedon
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book that contain the only writing of Zoroastrianism
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Avesta
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Battle between Greeks and Persians; won by Persia
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battle of Marathon
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the last king of Lydia
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Croesus
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King of Persia and founder of the Persian empire
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Cyrus
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Cyrus kinsman, expanded empire east and west
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Darius
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Zoroastrian works believed to be compositions by Zarathustra
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Gathas
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Zoroastrian priests
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magi
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Indo-Europeans branch that settled in northern Persia and eventually fell to another branch, the Persians, in the sixth century
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Medes
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Ancient king of Pontus who expanded his kingdom by defeating the Romans
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Mithradates
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Persian dynasty that reach its peak under Mithradates I
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Parthians
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Capital city of Ancient Persia
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Pasargadae
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ancient capital of the Persian empire
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Persepolis
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streched from the Aegean port of Ephesus to Sardis in Anatolia, through Mesopotamia along the Tigris river, to Susa in Iran, with an extension to Pasargadae and Persepolis
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Persian Royal Road
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Series of conflicts between Greeks and Persians
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Persian Wars
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Indo-European group migrated from Aryan
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Persians
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Persian underground canal
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qanat
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later powerful Persian dynasty that would reach its peak under Shaput I and later fall to Arabic expansion
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Sasanids
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Persian administrators, usually members of the royal family, who governed a satrapy
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satraps
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a successor state of Alexander the Great that comprised modern Syria, Iraq, and Iran in the Hellenistic era
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Seleucids
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under his reign, the sasanids stablized a western frontier and created a series of buffer states between themselves and the Roman empire
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Shapur I
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Retreated from policy of toleration, flaunted his Persian identity, and sought to impose his own values on conquered lands
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Xerxes
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Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrainism.
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Zarathustra
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Society located on the island of Crete
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Minoan
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Early Greek society on the Poloponese that was influenced by the Minoans; the Mycenaenans' conflict with Troy is immortalized in Homer's odyssey
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Mycenaean
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a large peninsula in southern Greece
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Peloponnesus
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city-state
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Polis
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Athenian orator and statesman whose leadership contributed to the political and cultural supremacy of Athens
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Pericles
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a general of Alexander the great and king of Macedonia
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Antigonus
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Term used to signify both the Epyptian kingdom founded by Alexander the great's general Ptolemy and the thought of the philosopher Ptolemy of Alexandria, who used mathematical formulas in an attempt to prove Aristotle's geocentric theory of the universe
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Ptolemaic
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