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| 7654544430 | Qin / Han Dynasty public works | Qin built bridges, roads, canals, and systems of flood control. Han continued work on the Great Wall. During Han, the Silk Road was constructed. Han helped expand roads and canals. Han had storage places for grain and other agricultural products. -built by laborers from the countryside that were forced to and slaves (prisoners and prisoners of war) | 0 | |
| 7654544431 | Qin/Han labor | - slavery - forcing peasants to work for little pay -in Qin slaves were forced to work on the terra cotta army - in Han there were two types of slaves, those privately owned and those owned by the state | 1 | |
| 7654564865 | Religion in Rome | - religion is not forced onto conquered people - christianity was persecuted - emperor was considered part god and should be at top of all religions, though not enforced - christians were persecuted and outlawed because they got the emperor's attention and were being "disruptive" | 2 | |
| 7654566210 | Fall of classical empires | - Han, roman and Gupta empires fell from internal and external pressures - All empires fell from disease, revolts, internal pressures, and invading nomads HAN -- divisions with ruling elite limited effectiveness of gov.; rise in epidemics led to yellow turban rebellion; issues: land distribution, private armies, unrest, economic decline ROMAN -- Germanic invasions; barracks emperors; Hun invasions; GREECE — never really was a greek empire, but individual city-states who all shared a culture; philip of macedonia conquered greece; alexander took over after his father and kind of put an end to greece GUPTA — couldn't pay for bureaucracy and military; white huns | 3 | |
| 7654567889 | classical trade routes | MEDITERRANEAN -- grain, olives, vines, fruits, nuts, wool throughout Roman empire; sea trade through Syrian, Palestinian, Spanish, North African ports SILK ROADS -- from Asia to Roman Empire and India; traded horses | 4 | |
| 7654570303 | Taklamakan Desert | -One of the most dangerous deserts in the world. -Located in the Tarim Basin. -Part of the Silk Roads -"He who enters does not come back out" -Inhospitable | 5 | |
| 7654573245 | Roman Slavery | -At one point, 1/3 of roman people were slaves -relied on slaves for public works -got slaves from Poland -Slaves also performed domestic services -slave revolts like that under Spartacus -To romans - slavery was not evil but it was a necessity - Slaves acquired as prisoners of war, piracy, trade, and by birth -freed criminals had more rights than slaves -slaves were given some freedoms during saturnalia -slaves used for agriculture, mining, manufacturing, education, military, private homes, service industries, construction, public baths, and even cult rituals -if all the slaves were freed it would destroy the economy | 6 | |
| 7654574804 | Sincization | -a process where non-Han Chinese people came under the Han State and morals. - writing, diet, economics, industry, language, law, lifestyle, politics, religion, sartorial choices, technology, culture, and cultural value -examples: austronesian peoples, Turkic peoples, Tang Dynasty, Yuan dynasty, Ming dynasty, Qing dynasty, and Nguyen dynasty (Vietnam) -outsiders invading and becoming Chinese | 7 | |
| 7654577345 | Spread of buddhism | -Buddhism spread through oasis towns along the Silk Road and then into major towns and cities - the spread of Buddhism depended heavily on trade -Buddhism spread into china by merchants -at first, Buddhism didn't appeal to china at first -the merchants made monetarist which attracted converts | 8 | |
| 7654581071 | Jewish Diaspora | -Physical dispersion of Jewish people around the world because they wouldn't worship the Roman emperors. -The romans drew out the Jews from their homeland into Europe and more into the west -they disperse throughout europe and create different communities -the religion doesn't spread very much because of the difficulty of conversion | 9 | |
| 7654581072 | Indian administration | (Chandra Gupta Maurya)Mauryan dynasty had a book written on their buracracy (Chandra Gupta)Highly decentralized leadership in the Gupta Dynasty gupta imposed uniform laws, brought stability and prosperity decline caused by invasion by the White Huns government was left to locals Caste based for Gupta not so much for Maurya Not highly centralized | 10 | |
| 7654583776 | Jainism | believed that every physical object had a soul believed in complete non- violence vardhamana mahavira was the creator , started in india almost all occupations inevitably entailed some type of violence did not recognize social hierarchies became very popular between lower class | 11 | |
| 7654583777 | Han Wudi | - developed an imperial system to educate government officials - briefly dominates Xiongnu -worked hard to - developed the first type of bureaucracy conquered everyone the challenged government based on legalist principals but university focused of Confucian teachings 3,000-30,000 students | 12 | |
| 7654585793 | Wang Mang | - socialist emperor who tried equalize aristocrats and peasants - was assassinated - introduced wide range reforms - - created the mandate of heaven | 13 | |
| 7654588489 | Zarathustra | created zorastrianism left his family at the age of 20 in search of wisdom the material world is blessing influenced judaism and Christianity | 14 | |
| 7654591912 | Persian wars | -between Greeks and Achaemenids - Greeks believed Persians were uncivilized -greek rebellion crushed by Darius -Xerxes burns Athens -Greece won | 15 | |
| 7654593828 | Hinduism vs. Buddhism | -Hinduism supported Caste systems while Buddhism didn't -Buddhism spread more to China, popular between lower class citizens because it rejected a caste system -both have imperial support -they are classically both Indian religions They both spread to se Asia Buddhism spreads to China Salvation religions Both stress reincarnation Buddhism rejects caste system | 16 | |
| 7654600372 | Caste system | -developed over time as the Aryans -Four main Varnas( social classes) -Priests(Brahmins) -Warriors(Kshatriyas) -Merchants(Vaishyas) -Peasants(Shudras) -very strict: could only move up or down in another life -Buddhism threatened the caste system | 17 | |
| 7654603258 | Hellenism | -age of Alexander and his successors -Greek cultural traditions were expanded into areas larger than Greece. -from the rule of Alexander to the subsequent division into three large states -library of Alexander, lighthouse, etc -referred to the areas greece conquered. -greek culture spread to india -capital was alexandria | 18 | |
| 7654604558 | Gender in Rome | -Pater familiae - oldest males was the head of the family -women weren't allowed to own and inherit property -Women could be priests -women were supposed to look after their house and children -women depended on close male relatives | 19 | |
| 7654604559 | Gender in China | Confucianism emphasized filial piety; book for women written by woman scholar(Ban Zhou) everything was patriarchal | 20 | |
| 7654607468 | Ashoka | Indian emperor, after destroying Kalanga converted to Buddhism and gave Buddhists imperial support, made pillars with laws on them, ruled a beaurocracy, | 21 | |
| 7654607469 | Bantu migration | migrated all over Africa from Nigeria, when moving they brought their languages to new places and therefore the language changed, established decentralized governments after moving, each village was ruled by a counsel, because of conflict among them organized militaries were formed | 22 | |
| 7654616366 | Persian administration | buearocracy, state owned slaves for large construction projects, women worked in textile production, agriculture foundation for economy, Royal road assisted in trade | 23 | |
| 7654616367 | Legalism | emerged from School of Thought during warring states period, based on goal of expanding and strengthening the state at all costs, strict laws and harsh punishments, government strength lies in agriculture and military therefore government discouraged other career paths, people should watch each other closely, used by qin to end warring states period BROUGHT ORER TO CHINA AFTER THE WARRING STATES | 24 | |
| 7654618071 | Buddhism | started by Siddhartha Gautama, Noble truths-all life involves suffering, eliminate desire and you eliminate suffering, follow the eightfold path- right belief, right resolve, right speech, right behavior, right occupation, right effort, right contemplation, and right meditation, goal is to achieve Nirvana, appealing to lower casts | 25 | |
| 7654619548 | Confucianism | - han wadi created imperial education which consisted of confucian teachings -started by Confucius -book known as Analects -education is important, also moral integrity and fair judgement -loyalty to family important -patriarchal society THEIR IMPACT ON CHINA WAS EDUCATION | 26 | |
| 7654622099 | Spread of Buddhism and Christianity | Spread of Buddhism - Buddhism spread through oasis towns along the Silk Road and then into major towns and cities - the spread of Buddhism depended heavily on trade -Buddhism spread into china by merchants -at first, Buddhism didn't appeal to china -the merchants made monetarist which attracted converts Spread of Christianity - Christianity spread throughout the Silk Road easily -spread by missionaries -many christians were crucified, a way of persecution, by the Romans - | 27 |
