Key Term Definition Spice with Characteristic

Cavalry A unit of soldiers mounted on (S) Class Structure

horses

Cyrus the Great Founder of the Persian (P) Government and

Empire Leadership

Darius l Persian emperor who (P) Government and

organized and expanded the Leadership
empire

Persian Wars A series of wars between (P) Conflict and Wars

Persia and Greece Beginning
in 490 B.C.

Xerxes l Persian emperor who led the (P) Government and

second invasion of greece in Leadership
480 B.C

Alliance An agreement to work (C) Religion, Belief, and

together Ideologies

Peloponnesian War A war between the two Greek (P) Conflict and Wars
city states of Athens and
Sparta in the 400s B.C

Philip II Powerful king of Macedonia (P) Government and

Leadership

Phalanx A group of warriors who (S) Class Structure

stood close together in a
square

Alexander the Great King of Macedonia who built (P) Government and
the largest empire the world Leadership
had ever seen

Hellenistic Name for the blended culture (C) Religion, Belief, and
that developed in Ideologies
Alexander’s empire

Socrates The first of the great Greek (S) Class Structure

thinkers and teachers

Plato teacher and thinker, student (S) Class Structure

of Socrates, and founder of
the Academy

Aristotle Philosopher who taught that (S) Freedom and Rights

 people should live lives of
moderation based
on reason

Reason Clear and ordered thinking (C) Religion, Belief, and

Ideologies

Euclid Great and influential (S) Class Structure

mathematician

Hippocrates Great Greek doctor who (S) Class Structure

taught how to treat disease
by understanding
what caused illness