Chapter 3- Eurasian Empires
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| 15778431467 | Alexander the Great | Alexander III of Macedonia, conqueror of the Persian Empire and part of northwestern India. |  | 0 |
| 15778431468 | Ashoka | The most famous ruler of the Mauryan empire; he converted to Buddhism and tried to rule peacefully and with tolerance. |  | 1 |
| 15778431469 | Athenian Democracy | A 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 |
| 15778431470 | Caesar Augustus | The 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 |
| 15778431471 | Greco Persian War | Two major Persian invasions of Greece, in which the Persians were defeated on both land and sea each time. |  | 4 |
| 15778431472 | Han Dynasty | Dynasty that ruled China, creating a durable state based on Shihuangdi's state-building acheivement. |  | 5 |
| 15778431473 | Hellenistic Era | The period in which Greek culture spread widely into Eurasia in the kingdoms ruled by Alexander's political successors. |  | 6 |
| 15778431474 | Mauryan Empire | A major empire founded by Chandragupta that encompassed most of India and unified the Indian subcontinent. |  | 7 |
| 15778431475 | pax Romana | The "Roman Peace," a term typically used to denote the stability and prosperity of the early Roman Empire. |  | 8 |
| 15778431476 | Persian Empire | A major empire that expanded from the Iranian plateau to incorporate the Middle East from Egypt to India. |  | 9 |
| 15778431477 | Qin Shihuangdi | First emperor from the Qin that forcibly reunited China and established a strong and repressive state. |  | 10 |
| 15778431478 | Trung Trac | The 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 |
| 15778431479 | Empire | States, political systems that exercise coercive power; often multi-national, aggressive, and often conquer, rule and extract resources from other states. |  | 12 |
| 15778431480 | Imperial State | A state that imposes its will on other states politically, economically and socially. |  | 13 |
| 15778431481 | Persia government | imperial system with monarchs and governors with spies | 14 | |
| 15778431482 | Persian culture | many different cultures | 15 | |
| 15778431483 | Persian features | canal irrigation, imperial centers, coinage, | 16 | |
| 15778431484 | Greek government | small competing city states with huge involvement in politics with citizenship and voting | 17 | |
| 15778431485 | greek culture | shared same language and religion | 18 | |
| 15778431486 | features greek | smelting of metals | 19 | |
| 15778431487 | persia collapsed due to | alexander the great burning the capital | 20 | |
| 15778431488 | greek collapsed due to | invasion of rome | 21 | |
| 15778431489 | rome government | went from being republic with patricians(wealthy) and plebeians (poor) that voted to an empire | 22 | |
| 15778431490 | rome culture | Christianity spread took gods from perisa and jewish had religious rituals and public buildings good gov=good laws | 23 | |
| 15778431491 | rome features | had law code and brutal army as well as public works and latin alphabet | 24 | |
| 15778431492 | rome collapsed | invade by Germanic speaking people , too big did not reassemble absence of bureaucratic tradition | 25 | |
| 15778431493 | china government | at first qin with legalism then han with confusicainam son of heaven | 26 | |
| 15778431494 | china culture | the great wall, buddhism assimilated non chinese people good gov=good men | 27 | |
| 15778431495 | china features | had character for writing, lead to air pollution civil service system | 28 | |
| 15778431496 | china collapsed | tension between castrated court and Confucian scholars, had disease and invaded by barbaric states did reassemble die to beucracy | 29 | |
| 15778431497 | india government | towns of small republics had empires | 30 | |
| 15778431498 | india culture | range of ethnic culutral and linguistic diversity but with distinct religion - hinduism and buddhism | 31 | |
| 15778431499 | india features | had hospitals medicine math astronomy cotton textiles | 32 |
