World History Chapter 9

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Persians

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People from Southwest Asia that fought the Greek City States in two wars

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Cyrus II / Cyrus The Great

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Founder of the Persian Empire

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Calvary

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Soldiers that fought on Horseback

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Darius

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Restored order and organization in Persian empire

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Persopolis

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Capital of the Persian Empire

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Zoroastrianism

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Religion of the Ancient Persians

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First Persian War

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Won by Greece. Fought between Persia and Greece.

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Because the Greeks helped a Greece Colony revolt against Persian Rule.

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What was the reason the first Persian War started.

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Darius

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Leader of Persia in the first Persian War

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Marathon

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Battle where the Greeks defeated the Persians in the First Persian War

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Xerxes

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Leader of Persia in the second Persian War

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Revenge for losing the first Persian war

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What was the reason for the second Persian War

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Sparta

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Military like City State in the Ancient Greece. The greatest fighters of the Ancient world.

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Athens

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Birthplace of Democracy. Cultural city state in Ancient Greece

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Thermopoylae

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Narrow Mountain Pass where 300 Spartans held off the entire Persian Army and allowed Athens to evacuate.

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Salamis

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Narrow strait in which the Greeks tricked the Persians and defeated the Persian Navy

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Helots

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Slaves in Sparta

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Peloponnesian War

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War between Sparta and Athens

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War of the Whale and the Elephant

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Another name given to the Peloponnesian War because Athens was a naval power and Sparta was a land power.

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Phillip II

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Father of Alexander the Great and King of Macedonia

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Phalanx

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A military formation in which men stood closely together in a square.

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Alexander the Great

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Macedonia that conquered the largest empire the world had known.... all the way to the Indus River without ever losing.

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Hellenistic Culture

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Greek Culture and influence maked from the conquest of Alexander the Great

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Hellenic Culture

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Greek Culture before the conquest of Alexander the Great

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Alexander the Great Greatest Achievement

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The Spread of Greek Culture

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Socrates

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The father of Philosophy. Greek Philosopher that urged people to "Know Thyself" also taught by asking questions.

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Socratic Method

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Teaching by asking questions

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Socrates

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Greek Philosopher that was condemed to death for corrupting the minds of the young

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Plato

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Socrates most famous student he wrote "The Republic"

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"The Republic"

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Book written by Plato that described an ideal society where justice and fairness prevailed. Run by Philosophers.

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Philosophers

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Thinkers

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Aristotle

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student of Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great taught that people should "learn by doing" also advocated the use of logic and reason

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Euclid

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Father of Geometry

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Hippocrates

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Father of Medicine

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Archimedes

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Invented the water screw

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Herodotus

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The father of History

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Thucydides

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The first scientific historian