WORLD HISTORY AP 4 Flashcards

2106795651	Rock and Pillar Edicts	Laws written by Ashoka reminding Mauryans to live generous and righteous lives	0
2106795652	Chandragupta Maurya	He founded India's first empire. He was an Indian prince who conquered a large area in the Ganges River valley soon after Alexander invaded western India	1
2106795653	Ashoka Maurya	The grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, he took the Mauryan Empire to its height. Famously converted to Buddhism after the deadly Kalinga Wars	2
2106795654	Chandra Gupta the Great	The ruler who revived the Mauryan Empire under the Gupta Empire. Ruled from 375 to 415 AD	3
2106795655	Wu Ti	Most famous Han ruler; drove back the Huns and extended Chinese territory	4
2106795656	Lydians	First people to come up with a coin system to conduct trade	5
2106795657	Phoenicians	A civilization in the are of present day Lebanon, creators of the first alphabetic writing system and glass makers	6
2106795658	Hebrews	Early group of people who lived in lands between Mesopotamia and Egypt. They developed the religion Judaism	7
2106795659	Athens	A democratic Greek polis that accomplished many cultural achievements, and that were constantly at war with Sparta.	8
2106795660	Sparta	Greek city-state that was ruled by an oligarchy, focused on military, used slaves for agriculture, discouraged the arts	9
2106795661	Pericles	Athenian leader noted for advancing democracy in Athens and for ordering the construction of the Parthenon.	10
2106795662	Solon	Athenian reformer of the 6th century BC; established laws that eased the burden of debt on farmers, forbade enslavement for debt	11
2106795663	Draco	An Athenian lawmaker in the 7th century BC whose legal code was unusually severe	12
2106795664	Homer	8th Century BC Greek poet wrote the odyssey and Iliad. Highest virtue: manliness, courage and excellence	13
2106795665	Macedonians	Invaded Athens under Philip of Macedon. Alexander the Great spread Greek culture (Hellenism)	14
2106795666	Hannibal	Marched across the Alps to try to defend the city of Carthage from Rome	15
2106795667	Crassus	General who defeated Spartacus. Crucified 6,600 slaves on the Alpennine way. He later served in the First Triumvirate.	16
2106795668	Pompey	Roman general and statesman who quarrelled with Caesar and fled to Egypt where he was murdered (106-48 BC)	17
2106795669	Augustus Caesar	First Roman Emperor; son of Julius Caesar	18
2106795670	Julius Caesar	Roman general and dictator. He was murdered by a group of senators and his former friend Brutus who hoped to restore the normal running of the republic.	19
2106795671	Constantine	Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)	20
2106795672	Wang Mang	Briefly ruled during Han, claiming that the mandate of heaven had gone to his family	21
2106795673	Diocletian	A ruler of Rome who divided Rome because it was too big	22
2106795674	The Huns	This East Asia nomadic tribe were largely responsible for the fall of the Roman Empire	23
2106795675	The Gupta Empire	Innovations included the concept of zero, chess, studying solar and lunar eclipses, and that the earth revolves around the sun.	24
2106795676	The Great Wall of China	Chinese defensive fortification designed to keep out nomadic invaders from the north. It was started during the Qin dynasty.	25
2106795677	Peloponnesian War	(431-404 BCE) The war between Athens and Sparta that in which Sparta won, but left Greece as a whole weak and ready to fall to its neighbors to the north.	26
2106795678	The Persian Wars	A series of wars where the Greek city-states united against Persia, and managed to maintain control of the Aegean Sea and push the Persian Empire back	27
2106795679	Punic Wars	A series of three wars between Rome and Carthage (264-146 B.C.) that resulted in the destruction of Carthage and Rome's dominance over the western Mediterranean.	28
2106795680	Constantinople	A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire, now known as Istanbul	29