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7391860437Shihuangdi"First emperor" (221-210BCE) launched campaign to unify China , laid foundations for unified Chinese state, imposed uniform system with weights, measures and currency0
7391860438ConfuciusThe Han Dyntasty adopted this, more moral and mild than legalism1
7391860439EunuchsCourt officials in China who experienced tension with Comfucian beaurocrats2
7391860440Yellow Turban Rebellion(184) Major peasant revolt in China3
7391860441Civil4
7391860442476 CEThe final disentegration of the Roman Empire5
7391860443Latins6
7391860444AryansIndo-European people, thought to have invaded Indus Valleu civilization and thrm establish a new one along the Ganges river on Indias northern plain.7
7391860445Arthashastra(The science of worldly wealth) a treatide thst expressed a practical and unethical political philosophy for Mauryan rulers8
7391860446AshokaOne of Mauryan India's emperors (268-232 BCE)9
7391860447Cyrus(The great) a persian emperor10
7391860448PlebeiansPoorer classes in Rome; experienced conflict with patricians11
7391860449Punic warsA war between Carthrage and Greece12
7391860450SlaveryRoman conquests brought thousands of people into their emoire as slaves . Slaves were often treated badly13
7391860451Julius CaesarRecruited troops from the ranks of the poor, his own rivalries brought rome into all of a civil war14
7391860452Octavian Augustusfirst emperor of the roman empire. Maintained forms of the republuc, did not refer to himself as "king", "emperor" , and intsead refered to himself as "first man"15
7391860453Pax Romana"Roman Peace" when the romzn empire provided security, Rome's greatest extent and power16
7391860454Zhou Dynasty17
7391860455Mandate if heaven and son of heavenEmperorx were said to govern by this as long as they ruled with morals18
7391860456LegalismA politival philosophey adoped by state of Quin-- expressed clear rules and extreme punishments to enfore the state's athourity19
7391860457Hoplitesa heavily armed infantry soldier of ancient Greece (spears and shields)20
7391860458HelotsConquered people in Sparta who lived in slave-like conditions21
7391860459PericlesA reforemer who helped increase the rights of the citezens of Athens22
7391860460IoniaThe Greek name for settlements which were locatedon the Anatolian sea coast. Some of these settlements revolted against Persia with support from Athens in 499 BCE on the Greek mainland23
7391860461ParthenonDuring the first fifty years after the Greco-Persian wars, this temple which honored the Greek Goddess of wisdom Athena was built24
7391860462Peloponnesian War(431-404 BCE) A Greek civil war; Athens against Sparta-- Athens was defeated and the distrust the Greeks felt towards eachother increased25
7391860463Hellenic Periodthe spread of Greek Culture26
7391860464Hellenistic PeriodThe spread of Greek cultue under Alexander27
7391860465Alexandria EgyptThe largest of the culturally diverse cites which Alexander established. This city consisted of Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, Babylonians, Syrians, and Persians28
7391860466PatriciansMen of the wealthy class; thses people dominate the republic which was established by Roman aristocrats29
7391860467DariusA famous monarch who reigned from 522 BCe-486 BCE30
7391860468Ahura MazdaThe Monarchs uled by the will of this Persian god31
7391860469HerodotusHe was a Greek historian, Talks about Persia saying "there is no nation which so readily adopts foreign customs. They have taken the dress of the Medes and in war they wear the Egyptian breastplate.32
7391860470PersepolisWas one of the elaborate imperal centers that showded the wealth and power the Persian Empire had33
7391860471Indo-EuropeanGreeks and Persians were examples of this; Persians' homeland lay on Iranian plateau, Greeks' history drew on legacy of first civilizations.34
7391860472AristotleA greek Philosepher, he taught Alexander when he was a teenager35
7391860473ZeusA Greek god of the sky, the god of gods. Identified as Jupiter by the Romans36
7391860474Olympic GamesBegining in 776 BCE, these were held every four years in Grece. The city states would temporarily ignore their conflicts to participate in thses events together.37
7391860475city-statesHundred of small settlements which emerged in Greece, contained between 500 and 5000 male citizens38

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