1.  Please take out your outlines for your outline quiz!  BJOTD: What kind of fruit studies all the time?

2. Made by the non infamous: Alex Cherpes!

3.  Location: city-state in northern Mesopotamia Egypt Syria Palestin e Babyloni a Anatolia

6.  Land was governed by: Assyrian officials or Assyrian-chosen leaders Tribute: payment given to a stronger nation by a weaker nation

7.  Conquered by the Chaldean and Medes people in 612 BCE

9.  Location: Modern Day Iran  Great Farmland and rich in mineral resources Examples: Copper, Lead, Gold, blue lapis

10. Iran Fertile Crescent Anatolia

13.  Used the 10,000 immortals (bodyguard army) to take control after Darius

14. Greece

15.  Satrapies  Satraps: reported directly to Darius

16.  Royal Road: 1600 miles long and connected the entire empire  Coined money—standard for entire empire

17.  What amenities could you find on the road?  How long would it take you to get from Turkey to Iran on the road?  Why was the road so important? What did it help to improve?

18.  Zoroastrianism Zoroaster: prophet (600 BCE) Two armies fought over a person’s soul  Ahura Mazda: god of truth and light  Ahriman/Ahura Mainyu: god of evil and darkness “Judgment Day” at the end of one’s life  Paradise….or a fiery pit, depending on how you lived your life Holy Book: Avesta