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Ch4 Greece and Iran. By: C hristopher Orendain Period: 2. Ch4 Key terms. Zoroastrianism : is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of prophet Z oroaster and was formerly among the worlds largest religions it was found some time before the 6 th century B.C.E. greater Iran.
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Ch4 Greece and Iran By: Christopher Orendain Period: 2
Ch4 Key terms • Zoroastrianism: is a religion and philosophy based on the teachings of prophet Zoroaster and was formerly among the worlds largest religions it was found some time before the 6th century B.C.E. greater Iran. • Socrates: new intellectual currents came together in 390 B.C.E. when the philosopher Socrates was brought to trial, Socrates spent most of his time in the company of young men who enjoyed conversing with him and observing him deflate the prate of those who thought themselves wise. • Hellenistic Age: historians call the epoch ushered in by the conquests of Alexander the Hellenistic age because the lands in north eastern Africa and western Asia that came under Greek rule tended to be Hellenized that is powerfully influence by Greek culture.
Key terms continued… • Polis: the Greek polis consisted of an urban center and the rural territory that it controlled. • Tyrant: a person who seized and held power in violation of the normal political institutions and traditions of the community gained control. • Satrap: Darius divided the empire into twenty provinces. Each was under the supervision of a Persian satrap, or governor, who was likely to be related or connected by marriage to the royal family.
Ch4 key terms continued • Persian Wars: Persian attacks on Greece in the early fifth century B.C.E. in 490 B.C.E. • Herodotus: in the mid-fifth century B.C.E. Herodotus, from Halicarnassus in southwest Anatolia, published his histories.
Ancient Iran • Iran links western Asia and southern and central Asia, its history has been marked by this mediating position. In the sixth century B.C.E. the vigorous Persians of southwest Iran created the largest empire the world had yet seen.
The rise of the Greeks • Greece was a relatively resource-poor region, in the first millennium B.C.E. the cultural features that emerged came into being only because the Greeks had access to foreign sources of raw materials and to markets abroad.
The struggle of Persia and Greece • Persia was the Greeks great enemy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. and the wars with Persia were the decisive historical event. The Persians probably were more concerned about developments farther east and did not regard the wars with the Greeks as so consequential.
The Hellenistic synthesis • Historians call the epoch ushered in by the conquest of Alexander the “Hellenistic age” because the lands in northeastern Africa and western Asia came under Greek rule tended to be Hellenized that is, powerfully influenced by Greek culture.
