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| 86692752 | Qin Dynasty | 221-206 BCE. Ruler Shi Huangdi. Dictatorship, centralized gov't. Iron weapons, crossbows, cavalry. Thousands of miles of roads, great wall. | 0 | |
| 86692753 | Han Dynasty | 206 BCE-220 CE. Longest lasting Emperor Wu (104-87 BCE) Inner and Outer China, SE Asia. Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia. Postal service, taxes, roads, forts, canals to link Yellow and Yangtze Rivers. Silk, invaders, bandits, downfall. | 1 | |
| 86692754 | Central Asia | Nomadic groups, herding societies, horses, sheep, goats, livestock. Cavalry warfare. Aryans, Persians, Turks, Scythians, Tartars, Seljurs, Ottomans, Huns, Magyars, Mongols. | 2 | |
| 86692755 | Classical India | Began 1500 BCE. Invaded by Aryans (Nomadic, 1st Indo-Europeans, light skin) Language: Sanskrit. Religion: Vedic, Hindu (caste system). | 3 | |
| 86692756 | Mauryan Empire | 1st group to bring India together politically. 324-232 BCE. Emperor Ashoka- became Buddhist (peace, tolerance) | 4 | |
| 86692757 | The Gupta Empire | 320-550 CE controlled most of northern and central India. Gupta rulers were Hindu. Northwest caused collapse. | 5 | |
| 86692758 | Classical Greece | Aegean civilizations 2000- 1150 BCE Crete (Minoans) and mainland Greece (Mycenaean) Trading Hellenes (Greeks) Greek Dark Ages 1150-300 BCE. | 6 | |
| 86692759 | Greek City-States | Islands and Mts. caused dozens of city states (Corinth, Thebes, Sparta, Athens) Sparta was rigid (had slaves), Athens- culture, politics. City States- powerful families ruled, slavery common, women treated as inferior, democracy in Athens. | 7 | |
| 86692760 | Classical Period | 500-338 BCE- 2 wars with Persia. Persians invaded (lost). Peloponnesian war (431-404 BCE) was a civil war. Sparta beat Athens in civil war. Alexander took over Persian to India 30,000 to 50,000 troops. | 8 | |
| 86692761 | Hellenic Culture | Science was important. From 600 to 300 BCE Greek thinkers outlined many basic laws of geometry , physics, mathematics, and astronomy. Fear Gods, afterlife. First literary works. Philosophy- Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Sculptures, architecture. | 9 | |
| 86692762 | Classical Rome | 753 BCE Created one of the largest and long-lasting empires. Governed by a monarchy and then Etruscans. In 509 Romans rebelled. Roman Republic | 10 | |
| 86692763 | Roman Republic | 509-31 BCE. Tensions between lower (Plebian) and upper (Patrician) classes 270 BCE Italian Peninsula. 264-146 BCE- Punic Wars against Carthage (former Phoenician colony on African coast) 214-169 BCE- took Greece, The Balkans, and Turkey. Collapse: Republican gov't failed. Julius Caesar- 49-45 BCE. Republic ended in 31 BCE | 11 | |
| 86692764 | Roman Empire | 31 BCE-476 CE. Octavian was first ruler (Caesar's grandson) Eastern half broke off 1st. By 400s empire was open to barbarian invasion. 410- Rome attacked by Gothic tribes. 476 fall. | 12 | |
| 86692765 | Roman Society | Citizens/ non- citizens, Upper and lower class. Slavery, patriarchal, male had absolute power over wife/children. Women gained more freedom to divorce economic rights and family later. | 13 | |
| 86692766 | Rome Culture | Used Hellenic philosophy, literature and science. Builders and engineers. Built roads, forts, cities, buildings. Laws, Christianity was official faith 313 CE. | 14 | |
| 86692767 | Byzantium | Former Roman Empire but mostly east, capital: Constantinople- crossroads of Europe/Asia, center of art and culture, church of Hagia Sophia (Islam) Christian Saint paintings peaked, 330s C.E. Contantine was ruler. 500s CE- Justinian was ruler, Islam caused collapse (Battle of Manzikert 1071 won by Seljuk Turks). | 15 | |
| 86692768 | Classical Persia | Four ruling dynasties: Achaeminids (558-330 B.C.E.), Selucids (323-83 B.C.E.), Parthians (247 B.C.E.-224 C.E.), Sasanids (224-651 C.E. migrated from central Asia to Persia in clans. They were part of the Indo-European migrations and were cousins to the Aryans who migrated through India. | 16 | |
| 86692769 | Achaemenid Empire | Cyrus (558-530 B.C.E.) gained Iran, Lydia, Anatolia, Afghanistan. His son Cambyses (530-522 B.C.E.) conquered Egypt. Darius (521-486 B.C.E.) great ruler built canals, royal road, postal service, organized 70 ethnic groups, let old traditions stay, biggest empire in history, focused on the use of iron, had 23 governors controlled by spies. Xerxes his son (486-465 B.C.E.) ruled with Persian pride,went through Persian Wars with Greeks (stalemates) and taken over by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C.E. Alexander said he was heir to Achaeminid Dynasty. | 17 | |
| 86692770 | Seleucid/Parthian Empire | These two empires clashed. Pathians took control lasted 300 years, smaller empire, run by clans. Sansanids last empire (224 C.E.-651 C.E.) brought crop production, Shapur I, conquered eventually by Islamic Empire. | 18 |
