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Read the article and pages 119-123 of your
textbook and make sure to answer all of the
following questions:
People, Places, Events and Terms To Know:
Classical Age
Herodotus
The Histories
Persian Wars
Oral History
Historia
"The Father of
History and Lies"
Lydia
Candaules
Gyges
Persians
Cyrus the Great
(II)
Medes
Sardis
Babylon
Cambyses (II)
The First Persian
Darius
War
Satrapy
Aegean Sea
(Satrapies)
Battle of Marathon
Zoroastrianism The Second Persian
Persepolis
War
Royal Road
Themistocles
Ionia/Ionians
Ostracism/Ostraca
The Ionian
Xerxes
Revolution
Attica
Element
Triremes
Ionian
Hellespont
Philosophers
Medize
Pythagoreans
Battle of
Democracy
Thermopylae
(Democratia)
Leonidas
Athens/Athenians Battle of Salamis
Aristagoras of
Battle of Plataea
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Miletus
Ionian League
I. The Persians:
1. Where did the Persians come from?
2. What natural resources were they rich in? How
did it influence their rise to a civilisation?
II. Cyrus the Great
1. How did Cyrus organise his rule?
2. How did the Greeks name the Persians? Who
recorded the Histories? Why are they impetus to
the understanding of the war affairs?
3. Trace the conquest of the Persian Empire
under Sirius the Great?
4. What do we understand under the Babylonian
Captivity? How did the Jewish people treat
Cyrus?
III. Discuss the success and failures of
Cambyses II .
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IV. Darius
1. Discuss the reorganisation of the state by
Darius I.
2. What are satrapies? Who were satraps?
3. What legacy did Darius leave in terms of the
reorganized state? Who used the system later
on?
4. What is Zoroastrianism? What is it based
on?
5. Describe Darius’ Royal Road and its swift
messengers.
6. Identify Darius’ successes and failures.
7. How do you understand the following
statement:”Cyrus was "a father," Cambyses "a
master" and Darius "a shopkeeper?"
V. The Ionian Revolution:
1. Who were the Ionians? Where did they live?
2. What differentiated the Ionians from all the
other populaces of the Ancient World?
3. Who were the Pythagoreans? What were they
basing their views?
4. Explain what demokratia stands for?
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5. Explain what the author means by “global
plague of anti-tyrannical flu”.
6. What do we understand by the enlightened
ruling of Aristagoras of Miletus?
7. What was the Ionian League?
8. How did the Ionian League initiate the conflict
with Darius?
9. Why did the Lydian dislike the arrival of the
Ionian League and why did they seek the support
of the Persians?
10. How did the Persians revenge to Aristagoras?
11. What was the fate of Aristogaros?
12. Explain why do you think the Ionian Revolt
caused the War between Greeks and Persians?
VI. First Persian War (492-490 BCE)
Battle of Marathon: With the help of your
textbook and the article
Define:
1.
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ek ian k
ian Topogr egies ses mes
For For Gene Sat aphy
Utilis
ces ces rals rap
ed
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2. How did the outcome of the battle of
Marathon support the concept of the Athenian
Entity and inspired the Greek ideology?
VII. The Decade between the wars:
1. Who was Themistocles and how did he use the
democratic ruling to his benefit?
2. How did Darius prepare to attack the Greeks
to deliver revenge?
3. How did revolts in Egypt and Babylon prove the
strength of the Persian Army?
4. Who ascended to the throne after Darius
‘death? What strategies did he use to put down
the upheavals in Egypt and Babylon?
5. How did the treasures of the Laurian mines of
Attica contribute to the naval construction of
Athens? Whose proposition was it?
6. What is a trireme?
VII. The Second Persian War
1. When did the second war break out?
2. Define
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a. Hellespont
j. Xerxes' folly,"
k. peripeteia
l. evacuation of Athenes
b. Xerxes’ whips men
m. Mardonius
punish the dire strait
c. boat –bridge or paving n. Ephialtes
the sea
d. to medize"
e. topography of the
Northern Greece
f. Thermopylae— "the
Hot Gates"
g. the Immortals
h. 300 Spartans
i. Leonidas
3. With the help of the textbook and the article ,
fill out the table
a. Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE).
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rals
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b. The Battle of Salamis
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c. Battle of Plataea
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4. With the help of the textbook and the article,
discuss and outline all of the consequences of the
Greco- Persian Wars.
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