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| 10948167645 | Two most famous monarchs from Persian Empire | Cyrus and Darius | 0 | |
| 10948177923 | How far did the Persian empire stretch? | Egypt to India | 1 | |
| 10948356784 | This empire ruled hundreds of small city states individually. | Greek Empire | 2 | |
| 10948812841 | What was the Persian empire's imperial system based on? | Previous empires such as Babylonian and Assyrian. | 3 | |
| 10949720820 | Classical Greece was the foundation of... | Western/ European civilization | 4 | |
| 10948160347 | A persian Dynasty that ruled from 553 to 330 BCE and used the imperial system? | Achaemenid | 5 | |
| 10948193759 | This empire was very diverse | Persian | 6 | |
| 10948218621 | In the persian Empire, kings could only be approached through.... | an elaborate ritual | 7 | |
| 10949639088 | What caused the Golden Age of Greece, and what temple was built during this period? | Victory of the Greco- Persian war, and Parthenon | 8 | |
| 10949632069 | The victory of the Greco- Persian war allowed for even the poor to demand full citizenship rights since.... | They rowed the ships that brought them to victory | 9 | |
| 10949745791 | What caused the East/ West divide? | The Greco- Persian war | 10 | |
| 10948376671 | Because of smelting metals, this empire had major deforestation and erosion. | Greek Empire | 11 | |
| 10948230662 | What empire required sacred fires to be put out, people to shave their heads, and horses manes to be cut short when the king died? | The Persian Empire | 12 | |
| 10948251075 | What famous monarch in the Persian Empire caught a nobleman with his wife and then killed him and his entire cult? | Darius | 13 | |
| 10948255863 | Satraps | Persian governors that were in charge of the empires 23 provinces | 14 | |
| 10948272571 | Imperial spies in the Persian Empire were known as... | The eyes and ears of the king | 15 | |
| 10948283210 | What Monarch allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem? | Cyrus | 16 | |
| 10948285913 | Persians took on customs of... | foreigners | 17 | |
| 10949593635 | Greeks had to experiment with politics in Athens due to ________ _______ which almost lead to a ______ ___ | class conflict, civil war | 18 | |
| 10948297620 | This empire had standardized coinage and predictable taxes. | The Persian Empire | 19 | |
| 10948326722 | The _________ ________ facilitated communication and commerce in the Persian Empire | Royal Road | 20 | |
| 10948452039 | To temporarily suspend their conflict in the rivaling city states in the Greek empire, every four years... | They held the Olympic games | 21 | |
| 10948337961 | These two cities reflected the power and wealth of the Persians. | Susa and Persepolis | 22 | |
| 10949252939 | Unlike the Persian empire that expanded through conquest, Greek settlement was more of.... | settling in distant places | 23 | |
| 10948410574 | Greek population compared to Persian | Greek Empire was considerably smaller | 24 | |
| 10948431457 | City states in the _______ empire were incredibly independent but ________________ and worshipped the same gods | Greek, spoke the same language | 25 | |
| 10948475377 | The four major rivaling city states in the Greek empire | Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth | 26 | |
| 10948493467 | Most striking difference between Persia and Greece | Politics | 27 | |
| 10949097974 | What sustained a rich agricultural economy in Persia? | An elaborate underground irrigation system | 28 | |
| 10948541661 | What did empires do? | Stimulated exchange of ideas, cultures, and values, and allowed for economic and aristocratic development, commercial exchange and cultural mixing | 29 | |
| 10948775825 | How did empires help define masculinity? | Conquests generated warrior culture that gave men prominence that rules imperial states. | 30 | |
| 10949002856 | Kings in _______ were absolute monarchs. They werent even afraid to kill those of ________ _______ | Persia, High ranks | 31 | |
| 10949134583 | This famous monarch inscribed commentary on what he had set in motion on the foundation of Persepolis | Darius | 32 | |
| 10948851834 | Tyrants were usually known as ________ but _______ rulers and usually supported by ________ class to challenge the ________ | strong, good, lower, wealthy | 33 | |
| 10949227935 | The Greeks called themselves... | Hellenes | 34 | |
| 10949188017 | Persians and Greeks were both _______- ___________ people | Indo- European | 35 | |
| 10949203713 | This Greek city-state was known for Military endeavors and vested political authority in the "Council of Elders." | Sparta | 36 | |
| 10949259962 | Which was more democratic, Athens or Sparta? | Athens | 37 | |
| 10949279772 | In Athens ____ ____________ could take part in assembly | all citizens | 38 | |
| 10949554095 | Persians came to represent ______ and _______ Greece represented _______ and _________ | Asia, despotism Europe, and freedom | 39 | |
| 10949297674 | As a result of class conflict, the leader, _________, broke the hold of _______ _______________ _________ | Solon, small aristocratic families | 40 | |
| 10949362408 | ______ abolished debt slavery in Athens | Solon | 41 | |
| 10949374001 | Compared to Sparta, Athens public office was.... | open to a wider group of men | 42 | |
| 10949400059 | _______ became the center of political life in Athens | assembly | 43 | |
| 10949409717 | In Athens the democracy was _______ rather than ________ | direct, representative | 44 | |
| 10949434657 | _________ slaves, and __________ had no citizen rights in Athens. | Female, foreigners | 45 | |
| 10949460293 | Regrading the Greco- Persian war, confrontation occurred because of... | the patterns of expansion | 46 | |
| 10949478700 | _______ Greeks came under _______ control and with support of _____, some of these settlements revolted | Ionian, Persian, Athens | 47 | |
| 10949760201 | What caused the Peloponnesian war? | After the Greeks victory in the Peloponnesian war, Athens wanted to solidify their position, angering the other city-states. | 48 | |
| 10949794254 | Who was involved in the Peloponnesian war, who won, and what was a result of this? | Sparta and Athens, Sparta won, city-states were weakened. | 49 | |
| 10949494513 | Persians set out to destroy the Greeks ____ times in 10 years but somehow Greeks survived. | Two | 50 | |
| 10949512552 | Victory of the Greco- Persian war had a major impact on ________. | Athens | 51 | |
| 10949520295 | Greeks won the Greco- Persian war because.... | They were fighting for freedom and the courage to fight a mighty empire. | 52 | |
| 10949833078 | _________ take over achieved Greek unification after the Peloponnesian war. This was against the _______ | Macedonian, Persians | 53 | |
| 10948309655 | The _______ built a canal that liked the ________ to the ____ sea. This expanded commerce and ___________ | Persians, Nile, Red Sea, communication | 54 | |
| 10949853635 | What Alexander the great so great? | Lead one of the greatest military feats of the ancient world. He created a Greek empire from Egypt and Anatolia to the West of Afghanistan and India. Persia was completely destroyed. Greatest accomplishment: dissemination of Greek Culture (Hellenistic Era) | 55 | |
| 10949900746 | What happened after Alexander the Great died? | His empire was divided into three kingdoms that were ruled by Macedonian generals. | 56 | |
| 10949956410 | Alexandria was located in _____. Very different from Greek City States in __________ _________ and non-_________ | Egypt, cultural diversity, and non-independence | 57 | |
| 10950009318 | Alexandria was part of a large conquest in states:__________ empire in Egypt, _________ empire in Persia | Ptolemaic, Seleucid | 58 | |
| 10948512937 | What is an empire? | States political systems that exercise coercive power but the term is usually reserved for larger states that conquer, rule, and extract resources from other states | 59 | |
| 10950042599 | Why did Greek cultural influence fade?( Hellenistic Era) | Kingdoms that promoted it weakened and vanished | 60 | |
| 10950275155 | In Rome, what caused the establishment of a republic? | Aristocrats overthrew the king and established one | 61 | |
| 10950295284 | In Rome, wealthy __________ dominated. Consuls ruled with the advice of the Roman _________. | patricians, senate | 62 | |
| 10950315678 | Plebeians | common people | 63 | |
| 10950321005 | Conflict with __________ led to changes in Rome | Plebeians | 64 | |
| 10950356210 | Plebeians had some protection in Rome, office of _________ would represent them and allow them to block unfavorable _________. | tribune, legislation | 65 | |
| 10950373768 | Rome was known as.... | master of the mediterranean | 66 | |
| 10950383671 | Rome's __________ wars with ________ gave Rome control of North Africa | Punic, Carthage | 67 | |
| 10950397945 | Rome controlled _____ and the mediterranean, _____ and __________. | France, Spain, Britain | 68 | |
| 10950408835 | The Roman army was... | well trained, well fed, and well rewarded | 69 | |
| 10950419897 | Warfare made Rome what kind of society? | Warrior | 70 | |
| 10950433427 | Men had the right to kill who? | their wives, and slavess | 71 | |
| 10950456113 | By the _______ ___, wealth and the breakdown of other Roman social structure tended to give women more ___________. | common era, freedom | 72 | |
| 10950485371 | Wealth gave military leaders ability to... | buy armies | 73 | |
| 10950489883 | _______ bought armies from the poor | Caesar | 74 | |
| 10950495230 | What ended the republic in Rome? | civil war | 75 | |
| 10950500177 | Who was Rome's first emperor? | Octavian Augustus | 76 | |
| 10950506888 | What did Octavian do? | Tried to keep vestiges of Republican ways | 77 | |
| 10950515257 | What is the Pax Romana? | Roman Peace period when Rome was at its most powerful | 78 | |
| 10950526010 | Rome was a new empire while China... | was a restoration | 79 | |
| 10950540138 | In what was was Rome generous to former enemies? | Granted them Roman citizenship or treated them as allies. | 80 | |
| 10950561073 | China had fallen into a state of ______ ________ ( __ kingdoms) | warring factions, 7 | 81 | |
| 10950572004 | Who succeeded in reunifying China? | Qin Shihuangdi (Qin Dynasty) | 82 | |
| 10950588499 | Who introduced legalism? | Qin Dynasty | 83 | |
| 10950598297 | Who started the Great Wall of China and introduced uniform system of weights, measures, and currency? | Shihuangdi | 84 | |
| 10950621506 | Who came after the Qin dynasty and introduced Confucianism? | Han dynasty | 85 | |
| 10950626659 | What else did the Han dynasty do? | Consolidated China's imperial state and established political patterns that would go into the 20th century. | 86 | |
| 10950642387 | In what way were the Roman and Chinese Empire similar? | Both though they were the bee's knees, public works,and both used supernatural to authorize their rule. | 87 | |
| 10950767856 | Dominant religion in Rome? Dominant religion in China? | Christianity, Buddhism | 88 | |
| 10950774817 | Where did Buddhism originate? | India | 89 | |
| 10950778439 | When did people turn to Buddhism in China? | After the fall of the Han dynasty | 90 | |
| 10950786932 | Romans where the ______ of their empire while Chinese were the _______ of theirs | minority, majority | 91 | |
| 10950822486 | China assimilation, they became _______ Chinese. While in Rome, They reluctantly on offered _________. | culturally, citizenship | 92 | |
| 10950839192 | Romans regarded Greek culture as... | superior | 93 | |
| 10950861953 | Chinese did not use latin sounds in their language, instead _________ which could allow even different dialects to understand each other through dialect. This is why Romans maintained their_________ ___________. | characters, cultural identity | 94 | |
| 10950885651 | Both Roman and Chinese left.... | major impact on their enviroment | 95 | |
| 10950892245 | What is the reason for the collapse of many empires? | too big, overcrowded, diseases sometimes, expensive, and limited resources | 96 | |
| 10950924964 | __________ India empire broke apart after _________'s death | Mauryan, Ashoka | 97 |
