The Persians: Engineering an Empire
Introduction
1. Where did the Persians come from?
2. How did they adapt to limited water?
Cyrus the Great
3. Persia became the _______________________________ empire of the ancient world under Cyrus.
4. Set up the _____________________________ in Pasargadae. This is where the first ________________________
appeared.
5. Cyrus __________________________________ ideas from people he conquered.
6. What did Cyrus do with the people he conquered?
7. Cyrus ____________________________ the Jews.
8. How did he die?
Darius
9. Darius was a _________________________________ of Cyrus.
10. Rebuilt the city ____________________________ and oversaw the building of Persepolis, meaning
“__________________________________________”.
11. Darius _________________________ for workers, and did not enslave them.
12. Engineers developed an _____________________________________ drainage system.
13. Darius tried to unify the empire by these two projects: _________________________________ and
_____________________________________.