Hellenistic Era Vocabulary

unit of soldier who ride horses

• cavalry
• strategy
• Darius I
• Persian Wars

a plan for fighting a battle or war

• cavalry
• strategy
• Darius I
• Persian Wars

claimed control of and improved the Persian Empire

• cavalry
• strategy
• Darius I
• Persian Wars

a series of wars between Persia and Greece

• cavalry
• strategy
• Darius I
• Persian Wars

son of Darius, Emperor of Persia during one of the Persian Wars

• Xerxes I
• alliance
• Philip II
• Phalanx

an agreement to work together

• Xerxes I
• alliance
• Philip II
• Phalanx

king of Macedonia that took over Greece in the 360s BC

• Xerxes I
• alliance
• Philip II
• Phalanx

a group of warriors who stood close together in a square

• Xerxes I
• alliance
• Philip II
• Phalanx

son of Philip II, built a vast empire

• Alexander the Great
• Hellenistic
• Antigonus
• Seleucus

Greek-like

• Alexander the Great
• Hellenistic
• Antigonus
• Seleucus