Thu., 3/6

Do Now—Annotate:

Cyrus and Crœsus (from Herodotus, Histories 1.88—1.89).

Read:

p. 500, ¶ 1 – p. 501, ¶ 2;

p. 501, ¶ 4 (first sentence);

p. 502, ¶ 1 (last two sentences);

p. 504, ¶ 2;

p. 504, ¶ 6 (first sentence);

p. 505, ¶ 6;

p. 508, ¶ 3;

p. 508, ¶ 6;

p. 509, ¶ 1 – ¶ 3.

HW—Exercise 36C—Your answer (entry ticket):

Spend twenty minutes answering the following in bullet notes, incomplete sentences, and/or complete sentences:

1) How did Cyrus the Great die?

2) Who was Cyrus’s successor and where did he move the Persian capital?

3) What country did Cambyses II conquer and what did he proclaim himself to be?

4) Who succeeded Cambyses II and how did he organize the empire?

5) What happened when the satrap, Tattenai, saw the Temple of Solomon being rebuilt?