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| 222810037 | Augustus | honorific name of Octavian, founder of roman Principate. After dfeating all rivals he laid the groundwork for several centuries of stability and prosperity in the Roman empire. | 0 | |
| 222810038 | Ban Zhao | wife of a Confucian scholar. Wrote 'lessons for women' a book about women's roles. | 1 | |
| 222810039 | Constantine | roman emporer. Reunited Roman empire. Moved the capital to Constantinople and named it after himself. Made Christianity a favored religion. | 2 | |
| 222810040 | Diocletian | anti Christian, divided the empire into east and west. He reformed and transformed it. | 3 | |
| 222810041 | Emperor Wu | won against the Xiongnu, in order to pay for the wars he made government monopolies on salt, iron and alcohol. | 4 | |
| 222810042 | Gaozu | thrown name of Liu Bang He was a rebel leader. He brought down the Qin and founded the Han dynasty. | 5 | |
| 222810043 | Jesus | Jew from Galilee. Sought to reform Jewish beliefs and practices. He was executed as a revolutionary by the Romans. Hailed as the messiah he became the central figure in Christianity. | 6 | |
| 222810044 | Julius Caesar- | brilliant general who conquested gaul, declared himself dictator for life, was assassinate by the senate because they were afraid he would abolish the senate and declare himself king. | 7 | |
| 222810045 | Mencius (Mengzi) | Confucian scholar that established the confusion doctrine around women | 8 | |
| 222810046 | Justinian- | created law code and Higia Sophia-cathedral in middle of Constantinople/power wealth arcetectural abilities-still standing largest enclosed space in the world for 500 years | 9 | |
| 222810047 | Paul | He initially persecuted the followers of Jesus, but received a revelation the nhe became a Christian. He traveled, preaching the new religion and establishing churches. His greatest success was among pagans. He began the process by which Christianity seperted from Judaism. | 10 | |
| 222810048 | Shi Huangdi | founder of the Qin dynasty. Ruthless, he standeredized many things, Had an army of terracotta soldiers in his tomb. Had a code of laws, standardized system of writing. | 11 | |
| 222810049 | Sima Qian | Chinese "father of history". First "historian" of china, "chief astrologer" of Han court. | 12 | |
| 222810050 | Trajan | conquered Dessia to take their money | 13 | |
| 222810051 | Wang Mang | became emperor in between Han dynasties. socialist who redistributed all the land and wealth | 14 | |
| 222810052 | Xiongnu | the nomads from the north of china that the Chinese | 15 | |
| 222810053 | Aqueduct | Used gravity t ocarry water from a source to a location that needed it. | 16 | |
| 222810054 | Chang'an | City in Wei Valley. Became Capital of Qin and early Han and Tang empires. | 17 | |
| 222810055 | Constantinople | Capital of Rome. | 18 | |
| 222810056 | Equites | Prosperous Italian landowners who were second in wealth and status to the senatorial aristocracy. Roman emperors allied with them to counter-balance the influence of the old aristocracy. They used them to staff the imperial civil service. | 19 | |
| 222810057 | Gentry | Gentry- Chinese class of wealthy families. Below the class of rural aristocrats. The emperor hired them as administrative personelle. Privileged group because they educated. They made the government more efficient. | 20 | |
| 222810058 | Latifundia | broad roman estates or ranches that replaced the small self-sufficient farms of the Italian countryside. | 21 | |
| 222810059 | Patricians | elite romans | 22 | |
| 222810060 | Plebeians | Plebeians- the laboring romans, everyone else. | 23 | |
| 222810061 | Red eyebrows | secret society that overthrow Wei Meng. | 24 | |
| 222810062 | Roman Senate | governed the roman state. Under their leadership Rome conquered a huge empire. Quarrels and failure to address social and economic problems. | 25 | |
| 222810063 | Corpus Juris Civilis | Emperor Justinian's body of laws. | 26 | |
| 222810064 | Edict of Milan | edict that allowed Christians not to be persecuted. It ended persecution and gave freedom to worship. | 27 | |
| 222810065 | Han | (1) Ethnic Chinese who origionated in the yellow river valley and spread throughout China. (2) Dynasty of emperors. | 28 | |
| 222810066 | pax romana | "Roman peace", stability and prosperity. It was the movement of people and trade goods along roman roads and safe seas that allowed for the spread of cultural practices, technologies, and religious ideas. | 29 | |
| 222810067 | Punic Wars | wars fought between Rome and Carthage. Rome won and got control of the Mediterranean. | 30 | |
| 222810068 | Qin | The first Chinese empire. The first leader, Shi Huangdi, standardized many things. He was ruthless and hostile which led to the fall of his dynasty shortly after his death. | 31 | |
| 222810069 | Roman Principate | The period following the republic. It was the process by which the Latin language and Roman culture became dominant in the western part of the Roman empire. The roman government did not actively seek to Romanize the subject peoples, but indigenous peoples in the prvinces often chose to Romanize because of the political and economic advantages as well as the allure of Roman success. | 32 | |
| 222810070 | Roman Republic | governed by the senate | 33 | |
| 222810071 | Romanization | - when the Romans took over a place and they spread their culture to those people. | 34 | |
| 222810072 | Sui and Tang | Dynasties that succeeded the Han. | 35 | |
| 222810073 | Xiongnu Confederacy | Chinese rulers tried a variety of defenses and stratagems to ward off these "barbarians" as they called them | 36 |
