Chapter 9 Flashcards
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Cyrus the Great
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is a king who let the people he conquered keep their own customs
2
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a cavalry
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is a unit of soldiers who ride horses
3
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Darius
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is a young king who killed all his rivals for power
4
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the Persian Wars
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were a series of wars between Persia and Greece
5
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Xerxes
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is Darius’s son
6
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an alliance
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is an agreement to work together
7
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the Peloponnesian War
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was a war between Athens and Sparta that threatened to tear all of Greece apart
8
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in 359 BC Philip
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became king of Macedonia
9
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a phalanx
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was a group of worriers who stood close together in a square
10
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Alexander
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was one of the greatest conquerors in history
11
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Hellenistic
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or Greek-like
12
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Socrates
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was a great thinker
13
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Plato
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was a student of Socrates
14
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Aristotle
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was perhaps the greatest Greek thinker
15
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a reason
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is a clear and ordered way of thinking
