Persian Empire
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Social Studies
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6th Grade
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Hard
Joseph Anderson
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12 Slides • 7 Questions
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PERSIAN EMPIRE
STORY TIME: PRESENTED BY YOUR LOVELY TEACHER PAULA NUÑEZ ORTIZ
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ONCE UPON A TIME
a guy call Herodotus told us everything regarding Persia
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AKEEMEHID DYNASTY
♥ Cyrus the Great raise the Persian Empire.
♥ Akeemehid Dynasty was founded in 539 B.C
♥Cyrus II. Conquered more places than his dad.
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Multiple Choice
Who founded the Persian Empire in 539 B.C ?
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Cyrus was SO tolerant, he conquered places, but he allows them to keep:
Their kings
Elites
Religion
Culture
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Open Ended
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Principal Religion
Zoroastrianism
First Monotheistic Religion
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Fill in the Blanks
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DARIUS
He standardized several things on the whole empire like:
language
currency (money)
Religion
Also he was the one who build roads in the whole empire
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Multiple Choice
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ORGANIZATION: CENTRALIZED POWER WITH A DECENTRALIZED ADMINISTRATION
Satrapys: Province or Region
Satrap: governors of the provinces
PRINCIPAL SATRAPY: PERSEPOLIS
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Open Ended
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DECLINE OF PERSIA
XERXES: he wanted to conquered the Greeks, the Greeks defeat him.
Persia lost a lot of power with the wars with the Greeks.
Alexander The Great from Macedonia defeated all the armies of the Persians.
Alexander burned Persepolis
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Multiple Choice
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Poll
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PERSIAN EMPIRE
STORY TIME: PRESENTED BY YOUR LOVELY TEACHER PAULA NUÑEZ ORTIZ
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