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Chapter 3- Eurasian Empires

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7337671056Alexander the GreatAlexander III of Macedonia, conqueror of the Persian Empire and part of northwestern India.0
7337671057AshokaThe most famous ruler of the Mauryan empire; he converted to Buddhism and tried to rule peacefully and with tolerance.1
7337671058Athenian 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
7337671059Caesar 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
7337671060Greco Persian WarTwo major Persian invasions of Greece, in which the Persians were defeated on both land and sea each time.4
7337671061Han DynastyDynasty that ruled China, creating a durable state based on Shihuangdi's state-building acheivement.5
7337671062Hellenistic EraThe period in which Greek culture spread widely into Eurasia in the kingdoms ruled by Alexander's political successors.6
7337671063Mauryan EmpireA major empire founded by Chandragupta that encompassed most of India and unified the Indian subcontinent.7
7337671064pax RomanaThe "Roman Peace," a term typically used to denote the stability and prosperity of the early Roman Empire.8
7337671065Persian EmpireA major empire that expanded from the Iranian plateau to incorporate the Middle East from Egypt to India.9
7337671066Qin ShihuangdiFirst emperor from the Qin that forcibly reunited China and established a strong and repressive state.10
7337671067Trung 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
7337671069EmpireStates, political systems that exercise coercive power; often multi-national, aggressive, and often conquer, rule and extract resources from other states.12
7337671070Imperial StateA state that imposes its will on other states politically, economically and socially.13
7337680163Persia governmentimperial system with monarchs and governors with spies14
7337716612Persian culturemany different cultures15
7337722735Persian featurescanal irrigation, imperial centers, coinage,16
7337727746Greek governmentsmall competing city states with huge involvement in politics with citizenship and voting17
7337746348greek cultureshared same language and religion18
7337750638features greeksmelting of metals19
7337760876persia collapsed due toalexander the great burning the capital20
7337764265greek collapsed due toinvasion of rome21
7337766171rome governmentwent from being republic with patricians(wealthy) and plebeians (poor) that voted to an empire22
7337782731rome cultureChristianity spread took gods from perisa and jewish had religious rituals and public buildings good gov=good laws23
7337798074rome featureshad law code and brutal army as well as public works and latin alphabet24
7337820989rome collapsedinvade by Germanic speaking people , too big did not reassemble absence of bureaucratic tradition25
7337835223china governmentat first qin with legalism then han with confusicainam son of heaven26
7337841356china culturethe great wall, buddhism assimilated non chinese people good gov=good men27
7337849275china featureshad character for writing, lead to air pollution civil service system28
7337856227china collapsedtension between castrated court and Confucian scholars, had disease and invaded by barbaric states did reassemble die to beucracy29
7337867959india governmenttowns of small republics had empires30
7337874119india culturerange of ethnic culutral and linguistic diversity but with distinct religion - hinduism and buddhism31
7337882328india featureshad hospitals medicine math astronomy cotton textiles32

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