Name: ______Quiz on ______
Mrs. ______
S.S. Block 2
Date: ______
Ancient Greece Lesson 3- Greece and Persia Notes
1) About the same time that Athens was developing their democracy and making changes, ______was making busy building a powerful ______.
2) The powerful leader of the Persians, ______, swept into neighboring lands such as Mesopotamia, Syria, Canaan, and Greek city-states near Anatolia.
3) As leader, he treated the conquered people ______by allowing them to keep their own languages, religion, and laws. He even let the exiled ______return to their homeland.
4) After Cyrus, other Persians continued to ______the empire into placed like Egypt, western India, and lands north of Greece. As a result, Persians improved the network of ______first built by Assyrians.
5) A large empire like ______became difficult to manage for one person. ______I reorganized the government creating satrapies (provinces) and hired satraps (like governors) to run each one.
6) Persia had a strong, large, and ______professional army. Persians also ______in many gods.
7) In the 400’s B.C., Persia stood ready to expand into Europe but Greece already had many ______there.
8) Persia and Greece differed because Persia had one all-powerful ______, while Greece believed that citizens should choose their own rulers and government.
9) In 499 B.C. the Greeks revolted against the ______because they controlled Greek land near Anatolia. Athenians sent ______but the Persians crushed the uprising and Darius I grew angry. He decided to punish the mainland Greeks for trying to ______in his empire.
10) In 490 B.C., Darius I sent a fleet of ______ships and an army to invade Greece. The Persians landed at ______(25 miles northeast of Athens)
11) The Persians waited there for several days expecting the ______to come forward but they did not because they only had ______troops compared to the Persians 200,000 soldiers.
12) After waiting some time, the Persians decided to sail directly to ______and attack it by sea. So, the Persians began loading their ______with their strongest units- the cavalry.
13) As soon as the Persian ______was on the ships, Athenians charged down the hills and into the plain of ______, where they caught the Persians off-guard, half in the water, and out of ______. Most of all, Persia was without any help from their ______.
14) As a result, ______suffered a terrible defeat, but the Persians vowed revenge against the Athenians and in 480 B.C., a new Persian king, named ______, invaded Greece with about 200,000 troops, thousands of ______and supply vessels
15) For the first time ever, Greek city-stated banded together to fight the Persians. King ______of Sparta supplied the most soldiers. He and his 7,000 men fought bravely, but when a traitor showed the Persians a _____ leading around the Greek line, the Persians were able to attack the Greeks from ______.
16) The Persians battle against the ______gave Themistocles time to carry out his plans to attach Persian ______.
17) Themistocles led the Battle of ______where he was able to defeat 300 Persian ships.
18) Battles continued between Greece and Persian until about ______B.C.
19) After the losses suffered in ______, Persia weakened and became open to attacks from ______.
20) In the 300’s B.C., Persia could not resist the invasion of an army with a young and powerful leader named ______. Thus, the Persian ______ended.