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Chapter 3- Eurasian Empires

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10902352793Alexander the GreatAlexander III of Macedonia, conqueror of the Persian Empire and part of northwestern India.0
10902352794AshokaThe most famous ruler of the Mauryan empire; he converted to Buddhism and tried to rule peacefully and with tolerance.1
10902352795Athenian DemocracyA radical form of direct democracy in which much of the free male population of Athens had the franchise and officeholders were chosen by lot.2
10902352796Caesar AugustusThe great-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar who emerged as sole ruler of the Roman state at the end of an extended period of civil war.3
10902352797Greco Persian WarTwo major Persian invasions of Greece, in which the Persians were defeated on both land and sea each time.4
10902352798Han DynastyDynasty that ruled China, creating a durable state based on Shihuangdi's state-building acheivement.5
10902352799Hellenistic EraThe period in which Greek culture spread widely into Eurasia in the kingdoms ruled by Alexander's political successors.6
10902352800Mauryan EmpireA major empire founded by Chandragupta that encompassed most of India and unified the Indian subcontinent.7
10902352801pax RomanaThe "Roman Peace," a term typically used to denote the stability and prosperity of the early Roman Empire.8
10902352802Persian EmpireA major empire that expanded from the Iranian plateau to incorporate the Middle East from Egypt to India.9
10902352803Qin ShihuangdiFirst emperor from the Qin that forcibly reunited China and established a strong and repressive state.10
10902352804Trung TracThe older of two sisters that lead the Vietnamese Revolution. She lived from 12 - 43 C.E and rather than being captured in war after her troops were badly defeated, legend says she committed suicide in honor of her family.11
10902352805EmpireStates, political systems that exercise coercive power; often multi-national, aggressive, and often conquer, rule and extract resources from other states.12
10902352806Imperial StateA state that imposes its will on other states politically, economically and socially.13
10902352807Persia governmentimperial system with monarchs and governors with spies14
10902352808Persian culturemany different cultures15
10902352809Persian featurescanal irrigation, imperial centers, coinage,16
10902352810Greek governmentsmall competing city states with huge involvement in politics with citizenship and voting17
10902352811greek cultureshared same language and religion18
10902352812features greeksmelting of metals19
10902352813persia collapsed due toalexander the great burning the capital20
10902352814greek collapsed due toinvasion of rome21
10902352815rome governmentwent from being republic with patricians(wealthy) and plebeians (poor) that voted to an empire22
10902352816rome cultureChristianity spread took gods from perisa and jewish had religious rituals and public buildings good gov=good laws23
10902352817rome featureshad law code and brutal army as well as public works and latin alphabet24
10902352818rome collapsedinvade by Germanic speaking people , too big did not reassemble absence of bureaucratic tradition25
10902352819china governmentat first qin with legalism then han with confusicainam son of heaven26
10902352820china culturethe great wall, buddhism assimilated non chinese people good gov=good men27
10902352821china featureshad character for writing, lead to air pollution civil service system28
10902352822china collapsedtension between castrated court and Confucian scholars, had disease and invaded by barbaric states did reassemble die to beucracy29
10902352823india governmenttowns of small republics had empires30
10902352824india culturerange of ethnic culutral and linguistic diversity but with distinct religion - hinduism and buddhism31
10902352825india featureshad hospitals medicine math astronomy cotton textiles32

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