In the 500s b.c., Persia ______.

Around 600 b.c., a Persian religious teacher named Zoroaster began preaching that a single god named Ahura Mazda was the creator of all things.

The Persian Empire was divided into ______.

The Persian Empire had a full-time professional army; Athens had a volunteer army.

In the 400s b.c., the Persians tried to expand ______.

The Persians defeated the Greeks at Marathon.

At the battle between Greeks and Persians at Thermopylae, ______.

In the battle of Salamis ______.

After the Greeks defeated the Persians at Plataea, the Persians stopped trying to conquer Greece.

Which of the following statements is true?

In the 400s B.C., the rule of Pericles in Athens was called

The government of Athens evolved into a system of representative democracy like that of the United States.

The Athenian citizens with political rights included _______.

Athens had many enslaved people who were captured during battle and became prisoners of Athens.

The Delian League lost power and influence because ______.

Historians call the war between Sparta and Athens the Peloponnesian War because Athens was located on the island of Peloponnesus

Early in the Peloponnesian War, Sparta ______.

In order to fight the Athenian navy, Sparta______.

Sparta defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War.

Which of the following statements is true about the Peloponnesian War?

Under King Cyrus, in the 540s b.c., the Persian Empire conquered the lands of Anatolia, Syria, Canaan, and

Cyrus the Great held his growing empire together by

Persian King Darius I

Who wrote History of the Persian Wars?

Pericles was a major figure in the politics of Sparta

The Age of Pericles was known as a golden age of

Beginning in 478 b.c., which league served as a protective group and a defensive league?

The Athenian economy was supported by

In 431 b.c. Sparta and other city-states joined forces against Athens to fight the

Direct democracy worked well in Athens because