Movie Sheet:                                                                       Name: _______________________________________
Teacher: Mr. Cap                  The Building of an Empire: Persia

1) ______________________ is one of the few who deserves to be called “the Great”.

2) The Macedonian ruler is __________________ the Great.

3) The tribes were _______________, and therefore more for survival than conquest.

4) They found this water from ______________.

5) The waterway sloped from the mountains towards the ________________ Gulf.

6) The angle of the slope was ________________.

7) Water means ____________.

8) Cyrus was a __________________ genius.

9) He came to power in _____________ B.C.

10) Cyrus was a very ____________________ builder.

11) The Persians were ___________________.

12) Cyrus refused to _______________.

13) Cyrus freed the ____________.

14) ___________________________ would become one of the greatest Persians of all time.

15) He began by rebuilding ____________.

16) Darius believed in _________________ for the work being done.

17) The Persian kings wanted to be remembered as __________________.

18) He called his highway the __________________ Road.

19) They linked ___________ to Europe.

20) Persia was at it’s peak in ____________ B.C.

21) ___________ ships were lined up across the waterway.

22) For a short period, _________________ and ________________ were linked.

23) The Persian Empire was no longer __________________________.

24) The hall was some __________ by ___________ feet.

25) Darius the III was known as the king who __________ an empire.

Answer Key Engineering an Empire

1) Cyrus the Great

2) Alexander the Great

3) nomadic

4) rocks

5) Persian

6) crucial

7) food

8) political

9) 559

10) innovative

11) borrowers

12) enslave

13) Jews

14) Darius the Great

15) Susa

16) paying

17) gardeners

18) Royal

19) Asia

20) 480

21) 674

22) Europe/Asia

23) invincible

24) 200/200

25) lost