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1) Persia's government under Darius was a(n)  a) Oligarchy b) Monarchy c) Tyranny d) Democracy 2) True or False: Darius was cruel to the enemies he defeated. a) False b) True 3) What was one thing Cyrus did not allow defeated enemies to keep? a) Their laws b) Their language c) Their religions d) Their leaders 4) At Persia's most powerful, it ruled over 3,000 miles of land. This is about the size of a) Ancient Egypt b) The United States c) Europe d) Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley 5) What major accomplishment is Cyrus famous for? a) Creating the Royal Road b) Building the Great Wall c) Designing the Hanging Gardens d) Constructing the pyramids at Giza 6) True or False: The next leader of Persia, after Cyrus, was Xerxes. a) True b) False 7) Which was not a job of a satrap? a) Judge legal cases b) manage the police c) lead armies of citizen-soldiers d) collect taxes 8) True or False: Persia believed the king should be all-powerful and Greece believed citizens held the power. a) True b) False 9) What were the soldiers who directly guarded the king of Persia called? a) The Invincibles b) The Spartan 300 c) The Unbreakables d) The Immortals 10) What League did Athens become the leader of after Persia was defeated? a) The Peloponnesian League b) The Delian League c) The League of Nations d) The National League 11) The column shown here is most likely a _____________ column a) Corinthian column b) Dorian column c) Ionic column d) Semicolon 12) What Greek city was between 25 and 26 miles away from Athens? a) Sparta b) Phidippides c) Marathon d) Ionia 13) Darius organized Persia into 20 different a) regions b) city-states c) districts d) satrapies 14) What does "Nike" roughly translate to? a) Victory Is Ours b) We Never Surrender c) For The Glory of Greece d) Life Is Forever 15) What was the ratio of troops in the last battle between Leonidas and Xerxes? a) They were evenly matched b) 180,000 Spartans against 300 Persians c) 10,000 Spartans against 100,000 Persians d) 300 Spartans against 180,000 Persians 16) As a result of losing the battle at Marathon, this Persian king attacked Greece at Thermopylae a) Leonidas b) Xerxes c) Darius d) Pericles 17) What was Themistocles strategy against the Persian navy? a) Trick them into bringing the Trojan horse into the city b) Use smaller, faster boats against their bigger, slower ships c) Hide in the mountains d) Attack during the Spartan religious celebrations 18) During which battle did the Greeks and Persians have almost the same number of troops? a) Thermopylae b) Marathon c) Plataea d) Ithica 19) True or False: A soldier that fights on foot is part of a cavalry while a soldier on horseback is part of an infantry. a) False b) True 20) What was one of Pericles' greatest accomplishments? a) He led a battle of 300 Spartans against 180,000 Persians b) He rebuilt Alexandria after the war c) He divided Persia into 20 satrapies d) He brought democracy to almost every male in Athens 21) What two main uses did the Parthenon have? a) A temple for Athena and a citadel against Persian attack b) An agora for trade and a temple for Athena c) A temple for Athena and a treasury d) A treasury and a temple for Poseidon

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