6806956303 | Rock and Pillar edicts | Edicts carved on rocks and pillars throughout the Mauryan empire during the reign of Ashoka. These Edicts reminded the people to live generous and righteous lives. | 0 | |
6806956304 | Arabic Numerals | A decimal system developed by the Gupta dynasty that used the numerals one through nine. (which were diffused to the Arabs and became known as Arabic numerals). | 1 | |
6807002673 | Han Dynasty | 200 B.C.E to 460's C.E. Wu Ti helped the empire to expanse. The civil service exam was created along with paper, sundials, the rudder, and the compass | 2 | |
6807002674 | Satrap | Title for Governor in the Persian empire who ruled over a satrapy or province. | 3 | |
6807002675 | Delian League | An alliance against aggression from it's common enemy is established during the Golden age of Pericles | 4 | |
6807002676 | Hellenism | The culture ideals and patterns of life of classical Greece. | 5 | |
6807002677 | Patricians | Land owning Roman nobleman. | 6 | |
6807002678 | Plebeians | All non-patricians and slaves. | 7 | |
6807002679 | Twelve Tables of Rome | Civil laws developed by Rome early on to protect individual rights (in some ways this is similar to our bill of rights). | 8 | |
6807002682 | Pax Romana | 9 | ||
6807002683 | Paganism | 10 | ||
6807002684 | Christianity | 11 | ||
6807002685 | Edict of Milan | 12 | ||
6807002686 | Zoroastrianism | 13 | ||
6807002687 | Confucianism | 14 | ||
6807002688 | Daoism | 15 | ||
6807002689 | Polytheism | 16 | ||
6807002690 | Legalism | 17 | ||
6807002691 | Hinduism | 18 | ||
6807002692 | Buddhism | 19 | ||
6807002693 | Judaism | 20 | ||
6807002694 | Theravada and Mahayana | Different sects of Buddhism | 21 | |
6807066697 | Mauryan Empire | 321-180 B.C.E. associated with The spread of Buddhism due to Ashoka. It was very large, spanning across all of India. | 22 | |
6807066698 | Gupta empire | (320-550 C.E.)The comeback of the mauryan empire after a few centuries. The empire was much more decentralized than its predecessor, but it is often referred to as a golden age because it had relative peace with advances in the arts and sciences. | 23 | |
6807066699 | Ashoka | The most influential leader in the Mauryan empire. After feeling terrible and filled with remorse after a bloody victory he converted to Buddhism and for the rest of his reign preached nonviolence and moderation. He is also known for his rock and pillar edicts. | 24 | |
6807066700 | Great wall of China | Separate fortification walls that were connected by the Qin Dynasty | 25 | |
6807066701 | Qin Shi Huang | Also known as Qin ShiHuangdi, he re-centralized various futile kingdoms that had split apart at the end of the Zhou dynasty; standardized of laws, currencies, weights, measures, and systems of writing; and refuse to tolerate any dissent whatsoever. He was very cruel in punishment to those who opposed him. | 26 | |
6807066702 | Xiongnu | A large nomadic group from northern Asia who were in conflict with the Han dynasty. | 27 | |
6807066703 | Wu ti | The "warrior emperor" of the Han Dynasty. He greatly enlarged the Han Empire to Central Asia. | 28 | |
6807066704 | Satrapies | Provinces in the Persian empire | 29 | |
6807066705 | Great Royal Road | The 1600 mile long road stretching from the Persian gulf to the Aegean Sea. Developed during the height of the Persian empire | 30 | |
6807066706 | Lydians | They came up with the concept of using coined money to conduct trade rather than using the barter system. | 31 | |
6807066707 | Phoenicians | They are important because they established powerful naval city states all along the Mediterranean. They are also important because they developed a simple alphabet that used only 22 letters as opposed to the much more complex cuneiform system. That writing system evolved into modern writing today | 32 | |
6807066708 | Hebrews | They are significant because of their religious believes called Judaism. This was the first recorded case of monotheism in the Fertile Crescent and beyond. | 33 | |
6807066709 | Athens | The political commercial and cultural center of Greek civilization. | 34 | |
6807066710 | Sparta | And agricultural and highly militaristic Grecian city state. | 35 | |
6807066711 | Persian wars | The series of wars that threaten to the existence of Greece. This united all of the Greek city states against their mutual enemy, Persia. | 36 | |
6807066712 | Pericles | The man who rebuilt Athens after its destruction by the Persians. This man also establish democracy for all adult males in Athens. It was under him that Athens established the delian league with the other city states, and alliance against aggression from it's common enemies | 37 | |
6807066713 | Socrates | Greek philosopher | 38 | |
6807066714 | Plato | Greek philosopher | 39 | |
6807066715 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher | 40 | |
6807066716 | Homer | The author of the epic poems, the Illiad and the Odyssey. | 41 | |
6807066717 | Peloponnesian war | The war between Athens and Sparta. Sparta won and Athens was never the same. | 42 | |
6807066718 | Macedonians | This was the largest empire of its time. These people were under the rule of Philip III of Macedon and then by Alexander the great. | 43 | |
6807066719 | Alexander the great | The leader of the Macedonian empire. He expanded the empire to create the largest empire of the time. Thanks to Alexander, the Macedonians developed many Greek aspects of life which turned into Hellenism. | 44 | |
6807066720 | Punic wars | The series of wars between Carthage, A city state in north Africa, and Rome. | 45 | |
6807066721 | Hannibal | A Carthaginian general considered one of the greatest military geniuses of all time. | 46 | |
6807066722 | Octavius | 47 | ||
6807066723 | Constantinople | 48 | ||
6807066724 | Diocletian | 49 | ||
6807066725 | Wang Mang | 50 | ||
6807066726 | Constantine | 51 |
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