Achaemenid
The dynasty that cyrus bega
Cirrus II
A wise ruler that treated his enemies well
Pasargasdea
Thegrand royal tomb that cyrus was buried in
Darius the great
A king after cyrus with a long and successful region
The province that Darius separated
Satrapy
Satrap
A governor
Susa
Darius’s capital city
Royal road
Miles of stone road that connected the empire
Hurodidus
A famous historian from Greece
A Persian gold coin
Daric
Immortals
The kings own army of soldiers
Rhytons
Jars, jugs, utensils,and drinking vessels
Zoroaster
A man who lived in the sixth century BC
Zoroasterism
The main religion of Persia
Avesta
The holy writings of zoroastrism
Magi
The priests in the persain empire
Marathon
Where Darius sailed to in 490 BC
Xerxes
The son of Darius
Hellespont
The strait that Greece crossed
Persian wars
The wars between the Persians and Greece
Artaxerexes I
The last of Achaemenid kings
Alexander the Great
A young man of 20 son of Phillip II
Parthians
A province in northeast Persia near the Caspian Sea