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The king responsible for unifying Iran was
a) Cyrus.
b) Xerxes.
c) Cambyses.
d) Darius.

The Persian provinces were administered by
a) direct control from the king.
b) large occupying armies and harsh discipline.
c) satraps or hereditary provincial governors.
d) utilizing native rulers loyal to the king.

What grew well in the dry environment of Greece?
a) Wheat, barley, and oats
b) Barley, dates, and grapes
c) Olive trees, grapevines, and barley
d) Melons, figs, and dates

Greece was organized into city-states called
a) satrapies.
b) poleis.
c) shires.
d) nomes.

Despite the adoption of their alphabet system from the Phoenicians, literacy in Greece
a) remained elusive for several centuries, relying on oral traditions.
b) was reserved for business transactions.
c) was undermined by the diversity of languages in the Greek islands.
d) divided between Phoenician and Linear B.

The Greek Dark Age was a period of
a) frequent disruption due to invasions.
b) dark atmospheric conditions due to the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius.
c) commercial growth due to the use of dark-colored dyes in fabric.
d) poverty, isolation, and depopulation.

Close-formed ranks of soldiers, called up in times of war, were called
a) phrateries
b) phalanx.
c) hyksos.
d) hoplites.

The Greeks believed that their gods gave advice through
a) oracles
b) the king, who was directly related to God.
c) shamans.
d) movements of the stars and planets.

Early Iranian social organization was
a) democratic
b) oligarchal.
c) patriarchal
d) matrilinear

Under Darius’s legal system, subject peoples in Persian territories were
a) given even harsher laws than the Persians
b) brought under a unified legal system
c) punished for disobeying the imperial laws.
d) still allowed to live under their own laws.

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