7391860437 | Shihuangdi | "First emperor" (221-210BCE) launched campaign to unify China , laid foundations for unified Chinese state, imposed uniform system with weights, measures and currency | 0 | |
7391860438 | Confucius | The Han Dyntasty adopted this, more moral and mild than legalism | 1 | |
7391860439 | Eunuchs | Court officials in China who experienced tension with Comfucian beaurocrats | 2 | |
7391860440 | Yellow Turban Rebellion | (184) Major peasant revolt in China | 3 | |
7391860441 | Civil | 4 | ||
7391860442 | 476 CE | The final disentegration of the Roman Empire | 5 | |
7391860443 | Latins | 6 | ||
7391860444 | Aryans | Indo-European people, thought to have invaded Indus Valleu civilization and thrm establish a new one along the Ganges river on Indias northern plain. | 7 | |
7391860445 | Arthashastra | (The science of worldly wealth) a treatide thst expressed a practical and unethical political philosophy for Mauryan rulers | 8 | |
7391860446 | Ashoka | One of Mauryan India's emperors (268-232 BCE) | 9 | |
7391860447 | Cyrus | (The great) a persian emperor | 10 | |
7391860448 | Plebeians | Poorer classes in Rome; experienced conflict with patricians | 11 | |
7391860449 | Punic wars | A war between Carthrage and Greece | 12 | |
7391860450 | Slavery | Roman conquests brought thousands of people into their emoire as slaves . Slaves were often treated badly | 13 | |
7391860451 | Julius Caesar | Recruited troops from the ranks of the poor, his own rivalries brought rome into all of a civil war | 14 | |
7391860452 | Octavian Augustus | first 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 | |
7391860453 | Pax Romana | "Roman Peace" when the romzn empire provided security, Rome's greatest extent and power | 16 | |
7391860454 | Zhou Dynasty | 17 | ||
7391860455 | Mandate if heaven and son of heaven | Emperorx were said to govern by this as long as they ruled with morals | 18 | |
7391860456 | Legalism | A politival philosophey adoped by state of Quin-- expressed clear rules and extreme punishments to enfore the state's athourity | 19 | |
7391860457 | Hoplites | a heavily armed infantry soldier of ancient Greece (spears and shields) | 20 | |
7391860458 | Helots | Conquered people in Sparta who lived in slave-like conditions | 21 | |
7391860459 | Pericles | A reforemer who helped increase the rights of the citezens of Athens | 22 | |
7391860460 | Ionia | The 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 mainland | 23 | |
7391860461 | Parthenon | During the first fifty years after the Greco-Persian wars, this temple which honored the Greek Goddess of wisdom Athena was built | 24 | |
7391860462 | Peloponnesian War | (431-404 BCE) A Greek civil war; Athens against Sparta-- Athens was defeated and the distrust the Greeks felt towards eachother increased | 25 | |
7391860463 | Hellenic Period | the spread of Greek Culture | 26 | |
7391860464 | Hellenistic Period | The spread of Greek cultue under Alexander | 27 | |
7391860465 | Alexandria Egypt | The largest of the culturally diverse cites which Alexander established. This city consisted of Egyptians, Greeks, Jews, Babylonians, Syrians, and Persians | 28 | |
7391860466 | Patricians | Men of the wealthy class; thses people dominate the republic which was established by Roman aristocrats | 29 | |
7391860467 | Darius | A famous monarch who reigned from 522 BCe-486 BCE | 30 | |
7391860468 | Ahura Mazda | The Monarchs uled by the will of this Persian god | 31 | |
7391860469 | Herodotus | He 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 | |
7391860470 | Persepolis | Was one of the elaborate imperal centers that showded the wealth and power the Persian Empire had | 33 | |
7391860471 | Indo-European | Greeks and Persians were examples of this; Persians' homeland lay on Iranian plateau, Greeks' history drew on legacy of first civilizations. | 34 | |
7391860472 | Aristotle | A greek Philosepher, he taught Alexander when he was a teenager | 35 | |
7391860473 | Zeus | A Greek god of the sky, the god of gods. Identified as Jupiter by the Romans | 36 | |
7391860474 | Olympic Games | Begining 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 | |
7391860475 | city-states | Hundred of small settlements which emerged in Greece, contained between 500 and 5000 male citizens | 38 |
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