Chapter 7: The Empires of Persia

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The king who failed to follow the normal Persian governing policy of toleration was

Xerxes

The Gathas were

Zarathustra's compositions.

The words "good words, good thoughts, good deeds" were used to sum up the view of morality of the

Zoroastrians.

The major early turning point in the rise of the Persian empire was the

victory of Cyrus over Lydia.

The leader of the Lydians who fell to Cyrus was

Croesus.

The emperor of the Achaemenid empire at its greatest extent was Cyrus.

False

In organizing their empire, Persian rulers relied heavily on techniques of administration from the

Mesopotamians.

Which of the following empires normally displayed the greatest degree of toleration toward its subject peoples?

Achaemenid

Which of the following lists of Persian empires is correct, chronologically?

Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanids

Zarathustra talked about the battle between the "wise lord" Ahura Mazda and the evil spirit

Angra Mainyu.

The Sasanids were defeated in 651 C.E. by

Arab warriors.

The social structure of the Medes and Persians was originally very similar to the

Aryans.

The founder of the Achaemenid empire was

Cyrus.

The Persian king who regularized tax levies and standardized laws was

Darius.

The greatest of the Achaemenid emperors was

Darius.

In 525 B.C.E. the Persian emperor Cambyses captured

Egypt.

The decisive victory of Alexander of Macedon over the Persians was called the battle of

Gaugamela.

Who used the words, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," to describe the Persian courier service?

Herodotus

The Medes and Persians were originally

Indo-European tribes

For his decision to allow them to return to their capital city and rebuild their temple, Darius received high praise from these people. Who were they?

Jews

Darius picked up the idea of a standardized government-issued coinage from the

Lydians.

The greatest Parthian ruler was

Mithradates I.

Which Iranian state followed the Achaemenids and rivaled the Seleucids in greatness?

Parthian

The magnificent capital of the Persian empire constructed by Darius was

Persepolis

Satrapies were

Persian administrative units.

The qanat were

Persian underground canals.

The Seleucids were finally defeated in 83 B.C.E. by the

Romans.

The center of the Persian communications network was the

Royal Road.

The empire comprising most of the old Achaemenid state that was taken by a general of Alexander the Great was the

Seleucid empire.

Cambyses was the Persian emperor who captured Egypt.

True

Shapur I was the greatest Sasanid ruler.

True

The Achaemenid empire was founded by Cyrus.

True

The Parthians were a powerful Iranian empire that extended into Mesopotamia.

True

The Persian loss to the Greeks in 490 B.C.E. was at Marathon.

True

The Sasanids claimed direct descent from the Achaemenids and that ruled from 224 to 651 C.E.

True

The Seleucid empire was founded by one of Alexander's generals.

True

The greatest Parthian ruler was Mithradates I.

True

The religious prophet who brought about a transformation of Persian religion was Zarathustra

True

The battle of Marathon in 490 B.C.E. proved to be

a Persian loss.

Gimillu was

a slave associated with the temple in Uruk.

Zoroastrianism was

allowed to spread through its own merits.

Zarathustra viewed the material world

as a gift from Ahura Mazda that should be enjoyed.

The Persian legal code was designed to

codify the laws of the subject peoples.

The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sasanid empires

employed a form of imperial administration copied from the Achaemenids.

Ctesiphon was

the capital of the Parthian and Sasanid empires.

Pasargadae was

the capital of the Persian empire before Persepolis.

Shapur I was

the greatest Sasanid king.

Which of the following basic tenets of Zoroastrianism did NOT influence later religions?

the view of the material world as a place of temptation that had to be ignored

The population of the Achaemenid empire under Darius was

thirty-five million.

The Persian "eyes and ears of the king"

were spies


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