7601582519 | Persian Empire | Who used the irrigation tunnels? | 0 | |
7601594426 | Cyrus the Great | Who laid the foundation for the Persian Empire? | 1 | |
7601611286 | He treated his conquered people better compared to others (did not automatically enslave people) | Why was Cyrus the Great such a great leader? | 2 | |
7601631127 | Darius | Who organized the Persian Empire into 20 satraps (provinces)? | 3 | |
7601752133 | Darius | Who was responsible for regularizing taxes in Persia? | 4 | |
7601646939 | They had hereditary positions of power, so no one questioned leadership | Why was there typically no drama between the Persians' government? | 5 | |
7601661322 | Underground irrigation tunnels | What is a qanat? | 6 | |
7601668278 | Human environment interaction | What is a qanat an example of? | 7 | |
7601679624 | Persepolis | What was the capital city in Persia? | 8 | |
7601685261 | To show how powerful they are, and was an administrative center | Why did they build Persepolis? | 9 | |
7601696077 | Zoroastrianism | What religion did the Persians practice? | 10 | |
7601713346 | Monotheistic (believed in one god) | What type of religion was Zoroastrianism? | 11 | |
7601730479 | Persian Empire | Who was responsible for the following innovations: Royal Road to connect the empire for trade and cultural diffusion and Standardized Currency (coins) | 12 | |
7601769763 | The Warring States Period | What time period was China in before the Qin Dynasty was formed? | 13 | |
7601777341 | Legalism | What political policy did the Qin use? | 14 | |
7601804868 | Qin | Who was responsible for centralization (standardization of laws, currencies, measurements, scripts) in China? | 15 | |
7601815330 | Central government | Where did Qin want all the power? | 16 | |
7601834152 | Han Fe Zi | Who founded legalism? | 17 | |
7601844927 | Legalism | Which ethical system uses force and harsh punishments to control people? | 18 | |
7601853985 | Naturally selfish and evil | How did legalists view humans? | 19 | |
7601860051 | Confucious | Who founded confucianism? | 20 | |
7601873161 | Confucianism | Which ethical system believed that problems could be solved with universal love? | 21 | |
7601884688 | Naturally good | How did confucians view humans? | 22 | |
7601892599 | Laozi | Who was the founder of daoism? | 23 | |
7601922550 | Daoism | Which ethical system believed that man is unhappy because they lives by manmade laws instead of 'going with the flow'? | 24 | |
7601932255 | Daoism | Whose goal was to become like nature? | 25 | |
7601948842 | Confucians | What group of people fixed mistakes with education instead of punishments? | 26 | |
7601953619 | Legalists | What group of people thought that power was more important than freedom? | 27 | |
7601958549 | Daoists | What group of people thought that everything must be balanced? | 28 | |
7601973972 | A civil war | What caused the split between the Qin and Han Dynasties? | 29 | |
7601982409 | Liu Bang | Who established the Han Empire? | 30 | |
7601990472 | Confucianism but had legal codes and punishments | What ethical system did the Han Dynasty live under? | 31 | |
7602011109 | The Xiongnu | Who were the Han Dynasty's enemies? | 32 | |
7602020571 | To stop the chaos of the Warring Period | Why were the ethical systems created? | 33 | |
7604810770 | He made allies with the Xiongnu's other enemies and sent 100,000 soldiers to push them back, but that did not stop them | How did Wudi push the Xiongnu back? | 34 | |
7604857804 | They made monopolies (only the government can produce the items) | To make iron and salt more valuable, what did the Han government do? | 35 | |
7604880363 | The powerful people had most of the land (unequal land distribution) | What was a big problem during Han? | 36 | |
7604913478 | Women | Wine making, weaving, silkworm raising, managing household, and raising children were whose jobs? | 37 | |
7604933805 | Han Dynasty | Sending people to school and having the officials chosen through competitive testing was unique to who? | 38 | |
7604950317 | Paper, collar harness, plow with two blades, wheel barrow, water wheel, and crossbow | What technologies did the Han Dynasty develop? | 39 | |
7604971897 | Silk textiles | What the Han's prized commodity? | 40 | |
7604990235 | Defending against nomads | What did the Han majorly use their defense for? | 41 | |
7605030013 | Han Dynasty | Who has trouble with social tensions between the poor and the rich with land? | 42 | |
7605048703 | Wang Bang | Which emperor claimed the imperial title himself, and wanted life to improve for the poor? | 43 | |
7605066412 | Chandragupta Maurya | Who is the founded of the Mauryan Empire? | 44 | |
7605078780 | With total power over every aspect of his empire | How did Chandragupta rule his (conquered) empire? | 45 | |
7605096821 | Kautalya | Who was Chandragupta's advisor of the empire? | 46 | |
7605116490 | Ashoka Maurya | Who was Chandragupta's grandson who was the high point of the Mauryan Empire? | 47 | |
7605584980 | Kalingans | Who did Ashoka Maurya crush in a gruesome battle because they were not obedient? | 48 | |
7605600153 | Buddhism | Which religion did Ashoka Maurya convert his empire to after the gruesome fight? | 49 | |
7605610541 | Hospitals and wells along the trade routes | What did Ashoka Maurya built to help his people? | 50 | |
7605618991 | Ashoka Muarya's sons ruined the empire with over expensive military and debasing currencies | How did the Mauryan Empire collapse? | 51 | |
7614861906 | Gupta Empire | Which empire supported arts, science and math? | 52 | |
7614861907 | They were decentralized, believed that the rulers were reincarnations of gods, supported Hinduism, and supported arts, science and math | How did the Gupta differ from the Mauryan Empire? | 53 | |
7614861908 | Gupta Empire | Whose economy was based on extensive trade? | 54 | |
7614861909 | They were very patriarchal | How the the social aspects of the Gupta Empire? | 55 | |
7614861910 | Classified diseases, plastic surgeries, 500 healing plants, c-sections, inoculations (inject small amount of sickness to prevent you from getting it) | What medicine technologies did the Gupta Empire develop? | 56 | |
7614861911 | Decimal system, PI, and zero | What math technologies did the Gupta develop? | 57 | |
7614861912 | The Earth is round | What philosophy did the Gupta Empire develop? | 58 | |
7614861913 | The invasion of the White Huns (economic toll on Empire) | What led to the decline of the Gupta Empire? | 59 |
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