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| 5224096597 | Cyrus | Created the Persian Empire by defeating the Medes, Lydians, and Babylonians; was known for his allowance of existing governments to continue governing under his name | 1 | |
| 5224097721 | Cambyses | A Persian king, named after his father Cyrus, expanded the Persian empire by conquering Egypt. | 2 | |
| 5224097722 | DARIUS | The third king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. He ruled the empire at its peak. He organized the empire by dividing it into provinces and placing satraps to govern it. He organized a new uniform money system, along with making Aramaic the official language of the empire. He also worked on construction projects throughout the empire. | 3 | |
| 5224097723 | EYES AND EARs OF THE KING | Inspectors for the Persian King, for taxes | 4 | |
| 5224099002 | Xerxes | son of Darius, and ruler of Persia from 486 to 465 B.C.E.; eventually defeated by the Greeks at the end of the Persian wars | 5 | |
| 5224099003 | Achaemenids | Persia's first great dynasty. Founded by Cyrus and peaked under Darius. | 6 | |
| 5224101133 | Persepolis | The capital and greatest palace-city of the Persian Empire, destroyed by Alexander the Great by burning | 7 | |
| 5224101134 | Satrapy | A province and/or the title of a client kings of the Persian Empire. Based on the system where conquered territory would maintain much of their identity and sovereignty within the Persian Empire. | 8 | |
| 5224102435 | Royal Road | A road for the government use built by the ancient Persian ruler Darius which helped unite the empire | 9 | |
| 5224102436 | Persian Wars | Conflicts between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire, ranging from the Ionian Revolt (499-494 B.C.E.) through Darius's punitive expedition that failed. Greeks usually won | 10 | |
| 5224103569 | Seleucids | They controlled Persia after the death of Alexander. Their king was one of Alexander's generals | 11 | |
| 5224104439 | Parthians | Armored cavalry men. Iranian ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E. | 12 | |
| 5224106145 | Sasanids | the successors to the Persians claimed direct descent from the Persians and recreated much of the culture and splendor of the Achaemenid empire | 13 | |
| 5224106146 | Qanat | an underground canal first built by the ancient Persians | 14 | |
| 5224107808 | Qin Shihuangdi | (r.221-210 BCE) The first emperor of the Qin Dynasty who believed strongly in Legalism and sought to strengthen the centralized China through public works. | 15 | |
| 5224107809 | Liu Bang | First emperor of the Han dynasty under which a new social and political hierarchy emerged. Scholars were on top, followed by farmers, artisans, and merchants. He chose his ministers from educated men with Confucian principals. | 16 | |
| 5224109085 | Han Wudi | A Han ruler (Martial emperor of Han) who ruled from 141-87 BC. He expanded the territory as far south as the Red River delta (Northern Vietnam) and as far west as the Caspian Sea. The Chinese began to trade silk, especially with the Romans during this time. | 17 | |
| 5224109086 | Wang Mang | interrupted Han rule for around 15 years to rule China; tried helping the poor by establishing granaries and land reform. Took power from from young Han king A Han court official who usurped the throne and ruled from 8 C.E. to 23 C.E.; noted for his reform movement that included the breakup of large estates. | 18 | |
| 5224110402 | Qin dynasty | Unified China after warring states 221-207 BCE The first centralized dynasty of China that used Legalism as its base of belief. | 19 | |
| 5224110403 | Han dynasty | (202 BCE-220 CE) This dynasty continued the centralization of the Qin Dynasty, but focused on Confucianism and education instead of Legalim. | 20 | |
| 5224112951 | Xiongnu | A confederation of nomadic peoples living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China. Chinese rulers tried a variety of defenses and stratagems to ward off these 'barbarians,' as they called them, and dispersed them in 1st Century. (168) | 21 | |
| 5224112952 | Sericulture | The production of silk and the rearing of silkworms for this purpose | 22 | |
| 5224114159 | Yellow turban uprising | This was a rebellion by peasants that weakened the Han Dynasty where factions developed in courts that affected central government leading to its fall. | 23 | |
| 5224115355 | Chandragupta Maurya | He was an Indian prince who conquered a large area in the Ganges River valley soon after Alexander the Great invaded western India.; founded Maurya dynasty; established first empire in Indian subcontinent; first centralized government since Harappan civilization | 24 | |
| 5224116239 | Ashoka | Third ruler of the Mauryan Empire in India (r. 270-232 B.C.E.). He converted to Buddhism and broadcast his precepts on inscribed stones and pillars, the earliest surviving Indian writing. | 25 | |
| 5224120197 | Vardhamana Mahavira | was a great jainist teacher (founder of jainism) | 26 | |
| 5224121128 | Kingdom of Magadha | Indian Empire that valued Buddhism and had a centralized bureaucratic administration but fell because of financial and economic difficulties | 27 | |
| 5224121129 | Mauryan Empire | The first state to unify most of the Indian subcontinent. It was founded by Chandragupta Maurya in 324 B.C.E. and survived until 184 B.C.E. From its capital at Pataliputra in the Ganges Valley it grew wealthy from taxes. (184) | 28 | |
| 5224122254 | Bactria | Indian state on Indus River, set up by Alexander | 29 | |
| 5224122255 | Kushan Empire | Contact with China caused influence by cultural diffusion; used the Greek alphabet; had control of North India; believed in Zoroastrianism | 30 | |
| 5224123737 | Gupta dynasty | 320-600 CE. Powerful Indian state-based, like it Mauryan predecessor, on a capitol in the Ganges Valley. Controlled most of the Indian subcontinent through a combination of military force and its prestige as a center of sophisticated culture. | 31 | |
| 5224123738 | White Huns | Hasten the the end of the Gupta Empire. Invaders | 32 | |
| 5224124851 | Jainism | a religion founded in India in the sixth century BC, whose members believe that everything in the universe has a soul and therefore shouldn't be harmed. Mahavira founded this religion. | 33 |
