38938813 | Jesus | prophet who preached | |
38938814 | Pontius Pilate | crucified Jesus | |
38938815 | Paul | Jew - set up church | |
38938816 | Gentiles | non-jews | |
38938817 | Emperor Constantine | ended persecution of christians, reunited empire, epiphany on battlefield for christianity, moved capital from Byzantium (turkey) to Constantinople | |
38938818 | Emperor Diocletion | last major emperor to persecute christians | |
38938819 | Emperor Julian | restored old polytheism | |
38938820 | Emperor Theodosius | banned jagan ceremonies | |
38938821 | Pope | head of catholic church | |
38938822 | 4 books | Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John | |
38938823 | Third Century Crisis | period of political and military problems, leader changes | |
38938824 | catholic (chart) | universal, latin, western, cross right way, Rome | |
38938825 | orthodox (chart) | traditional universal, Byzantine, Greek, eastern, cross reverse, constantinople | |
38938826 | Qin | warring state of wei valley, created by violence | |
38938827 | Shi Huangdi | founder of Qin Empire, china's first emperor | |
38938828 | constantinople to | Rome | |
38938829 | Han | dynasty of China, ruled for 400 years | |
38938830 | Han - canals | Shang Hei to tenjing to beijing | |
38938831 | (below great wall) | Han | |
38938832 | Chang'an | first capital city for the Han | |
38938833 | ancestor belief | worship | |
38938834 | women - lower class | less affected | |
38938835 | wei | valley, Qin homeland, less urbanized | |
38938836 | legalism | strict discipline, political way of thinking, authority is supreme | |
38938837 | primogeniture | right of oldest son to in herit property | |
38938838 | liu bang | first han ruler | |
38938839 | emperor wu | expanded territory | |
38938840 | qin did this | unified china | |
38938841 | unify how? | common: language, coins, weight and measures, laws, axle length | |
38938842 | gentry | peasants to aristocrats | |
38938843 | aristocrats | second in wealth | |
38938844 | slavery: china | contracts, less harsh, legal rights, army, other chinese | |
38938845 | slavery: rome | prisoners of war, harsher | |
38938846 | china and rome | agriculture, enemies, internal collapse, slaves, language, coin, army expansion, roads, women suppression, social classes | |
38938847 | chinese inventions | bronze, steel, crossbow trigger, cavalry, horse collar, paper, roads, canals, silk, watermill, cast iron | |
38938848 | decline: china | resistance from nomads, military burden, official corruption, peasants without taxes, money for unloyal soliders | |
38938849 | Romulus | she-wolf, founded/first king of rome | |
38938850 | latin | roman language | |
38938851 | senate | wealthy families | |
38938852 | council of elders | senatorial class | |
38938853 | council of nicaea | solved conflicts in catholic church | |
38938854 | res publica | public posession / republic | |
38938855 | roman senate | first to the kings, served for life | |
38938856 | patricians vs. plebeians | conflict of the orders | |
38938857 | patricians | elite, reforms | |
38938858 | plebeians | strike, keypoints | |
38938859 | paterfamilias | oldest male | |
38938860 | women in rome | children, paterfamilia control | |
38938861 | numina | invisible, shapeless forces | |
38938862 | pax deorum | peace of the Gods | |
38938863 | roman solder's equipment | body armor, shield, spear, and sword | |
38938864 | roman battle formation | subdivided into independent units | |
38938865 | latifundia | broad estates, farmers lost land while at battle | |
38938866 | gaius marius | new man, land to peasants for military | |
38938867 | princep | first among equals | |
38938868 | octavian | jjulius caesar's grandnephew and heir, changed the system of government and destroyed all rulers | |
38938869 | roman principate | period after roman republic, dictator, military > senate | |
38938870 | augustus | title of octavian | |
38938871 | equites | italian merchants and landowners, second only to the senatorial class | |
38938872 | law of the twelve tables | supplemented by decrees, bills, and proclamations, basis of roman law | |
38938873 | praetor | local judge | |
38938874 | two consuls | goverment organized, one year | |
38938875 | france | gaul | |
38938876 | pow | peasants didn't have work | |
38938877 | carthaginian war | two battles, winner is Rome | |
38938878 | carthage is | phoenician |
Chinese and Roman Empires
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